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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86, msr: Allow read access to /dev/cpu/X/msr


On 06/30/2015 08:44 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 08:20:55AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>> it seems like visiting changes on each of these packages (and the other
>> packages that I'm sure I've missed) will be moderately difficult.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Start by changing the ones users want to run most and leave the rest
> requiring root privs until someone has the time to convert them.
>
> Its not like we can remove the msr driver any time soon anyway.
>

Yes, I agree.

> So I would suggest starting with the perf MSR driver thingy for all
> those MSRs that count things and see if you can convert say
> turbostat/cpufrequtils/powertop over to that.

Yep, that was my plan -- I'm going to do the in-tree utilities first then look
at the external programs.

>
> I suspect there's MSR that are useful to expose but are not counting,
> I'm not sure perf is the right interface for those.
>
> Making an inventory on which MSRs are required by these tools and what
> kind of data they provide might give a good idea on how to continue.
>
> If most of these tools only use counting MSRs that can be serviced with
> the perf-msr driver then that would be great.
>

Thanks Peter!

P.


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