Re: Error in x86 CPU capabilities starting with test5/6

From: Arjan van de Ven (adve@oce.nl)
Date: Fri Nov 17 2000 - 09:00:00 EST


In article <3A15354B.4736A19@mandrakesoft.com> you wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
>> No it would not. Often you want cycle accurate couting for profiling
>> purposes.

> Isn't that why /dev/cpu/%d/msr exists?

This is root only though......

(Yes, you can crash AMD boxes by reading MSR's)

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven

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