Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753730Ab2JBNpe (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2012 09:45:34 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:39655 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753384Ab2JBNpc (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2012 09:45:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:46:02 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Jamie Gloudon Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fenghua.yu@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode Message-ID: <20121002134602.GA5015@x1.osrc.amd.com> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , Jamie Gloudon , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fenghua.yu@intel.com References: <20121001161151.GA2640@darkstar> <20121001162745.GD23181@x1.osrc.amd.com> <20121001233704.GA1344@darkstar> <20121002043954.GA27331@liondog.tnic> <20121002131138.GA1387@darkstar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121002131138.GA1387@darkstar> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 808 Lines: 21 On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:11:38AM -0400, Jamie Gloudon wrote: > My main interest was getting PEBS events support for perf on Intel SNB > cpus. Loading the microcode at runtime was not going to work. > > However, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I notice today > this is not the case anymore from the thread below. > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133905353211963&w=2 Yes, there's a perf callback from within the ucode driver to recheck PEBS. This is in 3.6 so PEBS should work there with the required ucode patch. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/