Re: [PATCH v2] perf/x86/intel: ignore CondChgd bit to avoid false NMI handling

[Don Zickus]

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.

Interesting.  My concern is we have customers that can soft reboot a
machine and have this bit accidentally be enabled.  I am pretty sure they
do not have a hardware debugger attached (I would have to double check).
Is there other ways this can be set?

Cheers,
Don

> 
> 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.
> 
> -Andi
> 
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