Re: [RFT] Fix for unhandled msr c0000081 problems under Intel cpus

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
>> the caller is in the gdb dump above:
>>
>>     
>>>> 0xc011b8ae is in setup_apic_nmi_watchdog (include/asm/msr.h:36).
>>>>         
>> i'll change it to wrmsr_safe().
>>     
>
> actually, those MSRs are really architecture-defined for P6 family CPUs. 
> So KVM/qemu should at least fake something there, or ignore it. These 
> MSRs might be ticked by various existing kernels and distributions. 
> Performance counters are ignored at the moment?
>   

They are unimplemented, and tricky to implement.  Just swallowing the 
wrmsr is easy, but it won't do the expected thing, whatever that is.


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