Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf/x86: add sysfs entry to freeze counter on SMI

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:25:49AM -0700, kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Kan Liang <Kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When setting FREEZE_WHILE_SMM bit in IA32_DEBUGCTL, all performance
> counters will be effected. There is no way to do per-counter freeze
> on smi. So it should not use the per-event interface (e.g. ioctl or
> event attribute) to set FREEZE_WHILE_SMM bit.
> 
> Adds sysfs entry /sys/device/cpu/freeze_on_smi to set FREEZE_WHILE_SMM
> bit in IA32_DEBUGCTL. When set, freezes perfmon and trace messages
> while in SMM.
> Value has to be 0 or 1. It will be applied to all possible cpus.

So is there ever a good reason to not set this?