Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Apr 2016 10:21:31 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] Improve non-"safe" MSR access failure handling | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote: > > I also tried a bad wrmsrl at a couple early points. Very very early > it just works with not warning. A little later and it prints the > warning.
Ok, that sounds like the correct behavior - I'm sure the very very early ones "warned" too, it just got dropped on the floor due to being before the printing/logging was up and running.
And even then, it's obviously much better than having machines mysteriously just reboot.
Thanks, Linus
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