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

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Jun 08 2012 - 10:17:09 EST


On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 04:03:38PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 15:51 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> >> Provided, of course, newer microcode versions means a
> >> higher version number.
> >
> > Fair enough, I assumed this.. is this true?
> >
> I would think so, otherwise it gets even messier!

Need to get Intel folk to say something here, hpa?

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