Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:46:02 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode |
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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.
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