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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] arm64:msr: Add MSR driver
On 2020-11-30 17:48, Rongwei Wang wrote:

> The interfaces of this module is same as MSR module in user space, and
> to solve
> the problem that ARM platform has no similar MSR module. Using this
> interface,
> we did some pressure tests to test the stability and security of MSR
> driver. The
> test results show that the driver will not cause system panic if
> various
> illegal values and multithreading concurrent access are passed through
> the
> interface.

It would certainly help if you described what problem you are trying
to solve here. In general, giving userspace access to random system
registers is a pretty bad idea.

Are you trying to validate a CPU? a hypervisor? Or is it just a fun way
to check how many things you can poke before something catches fire?

Thanks,

M.
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Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

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