Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935487AbcCQJ44 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2016 05:56:56 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:35144 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933544AbcCQJ4w (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2016 05:56:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:56:44 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Xiong Zhou Cc: Thomas Gleixner , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Andreas Herrmann Subject: Re: 4.5.0+ panic when setup loop device Message-ID: <20160317095644.GU6375@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20160317095220.GO6344@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160317095220.GO6344@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 581 Lines: 8 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.