Re: 4.5.0+ panic when setup loop device

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:52:20AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Mar 17 17:34:30 myhost kernel: smpboot: CPU0: AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6274 (family: 0x15, model: 0x1, stepping: 0x2)
> Mar 17 17:34:30 myhost kernel: Performance Events: Fam15h core perfctr, Broken BIOS detected, complain to your hardware vendor.
> Mar 17 17:34:30 myhost kernel: [Firmware Bug]: the BIOS has corrupted hw-PMU resources (MSR c0010200 is 430076)

FWIW, you might want to talk to HP about that; some machines have a
magic key-combo in their BIOS screen with extra options, allowing you to
fix this.