Re: [PATCH] perf/x86: check ucode before disabling PEBS onSandyBridge

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 03:56:11PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >  static __init void intel_sandybridge_quirk(void)
> >  {
> > +       intel_snb_verify_ucode();
> > +       /*
> > +        * we're still single threaded, so while there's a hole here,
> > +        * you can't trigger it.
> > +        */
> > +       microcode_notifier(intel_snb_ucode_notifier);
> >  }
> 
> Like that you mean?

Oh ok, this is regged through x86_add_quirk() in the pmu init code. Yep,
this is what I mean.

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