On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:11:28PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>
>> > > I believe this mask of 0x3fff17 is wrong and should instead be
>> > > 0x7fffff based on the description of the FRONTEND
>> > > MSR I see in the SDM Table 18-54 (bit 0-22 are valid). Otherwise, some
>> > > valid latency values may be rejected.
>> >
>> > No, my mask is correct.
>>
>> Provide a proper argument for that. Just claiming 'my mask is correct'
>> definitely falls not into that category.
>
> Because I actually tested the code unlike you or Stephane.
>
> # wrmsr 0x3f7 0x3fff17
> # wrmsr 0x3f7 0x7fffff
> wrmsr: CPU 0 cannot set MSR 0x000003f7 to 0x00000000007fffff
> #
Fair enough!
But then, the SDM is misleading. It is not describing what's
implemented for SKL.