From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Jamie Gloudon <jamie.gloudon@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fenghua.yu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:46:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121002134602.GA5015@x1.osrc.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121002131138.GA1387@darkstar>
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:11:38AM -0400, Jamie Gloudon wrote:
> My main interest was getting PEBS events support for perf on Intel SNB
> cpus. Loading the microcode at runtime was not going to work.
>
> However, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I notice today
> this is not the case anymore from the thread below.
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133905353211963&w=2
Yes, there's a perf callback from within the ucode driver to recheck
PEBS. This is in 3.6 so PEBS should work there with the required ucode
patch.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-02 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-01 16:11 Jamie Gloudon
2012-10-01 16:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-10-01 23:37 ` Jamie Gloudon
2012-10-02 4:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-10-02 13:11 ` Jamie Gloudon
2012-10-02 13:46 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2012-10-02 6:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-02 19:00 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-10-02 19:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03 13:13 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-12-12 17:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-02 19:04 ` Yu, Fenghua
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-08-18 8:15 Fenghua Yu
2012-08-20 15:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-20 15:44 ` Yu, Fenghua
2012-08-20 18:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-08-20 20:04 ` Borislav Petkov
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