Skip to content
Commit f4d9757c authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Ingo Molnar
Browse files

perf/x86/intel/cqm: Document PQR MSR abuse



The CQM code acts like it owns the PQR MSR completely. That's not true
because only the lower 10 bits are used for CQM. The upper 32 bits are
used for the 'CLass Of Service ID' (CLOSID). Document the abuse. Will be
fixed in a later patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: Kanaka Juvva <kanaka.d.juvva@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Auld <will.auld@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150518235149.823214798@linutronix.de


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 8d12ded3
Loading
Loading
Loading
Loading
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Please register or to comment