On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 03:22:24PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > I'm also interested in the behaviour of CondChgd bit on Ivy Bridge > > processors. > > The intended meaning of CondChgd is that a hardware debugger has taken over > the > PMU. It shouldn't really be set in other circumstances.
The SDM utterly and totally fails to mention this, please fix that. > I think right now for perf it would be best to just ignore it. > > In theory could stop using the PMU, but if some BIOS set it it would > completely disable perf there. So better to just ignore it. The even better option would be to kill off SMM mode, all that ever does is create problems. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/