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Date:   Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:07:00 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] perf/x86/intel: Fix memory corruption
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 07:47:50PM +0000, DSouza, Nelson wrote:
> Is the request to check whether the msr gets reset to default upon reboot of the machine ?

basically:

 - apply patch
 - start workload with 4 counter (on all CPUs), such that tfa-msr=1
 - try the following:
   o cpu hotplug
   o kexec

to see if the new WARN will trigger -- it should not.