Re: [PATCH 02/31] perf, x86: Basic Haswell PMU support

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Sep 28 2012 - 11:23:17 EST


On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 05:14:18PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> But then what happens if I pass a raw value that sets those bits on a
> processor without TSX?

It should be filtered out. It could #GP otherwise. I thought I checked
that, but will test again.

-Andi
>
> On Sep 28, 2012 4:58 PM, "Andi Kleen" <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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