Re: kdb: add rdmsr and wrmsr commands for i386
Bernardo Innocenti <[email protected]>
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Keith Owens wrote: > Before using MSR, you must first check that the cpu supports the > instruction, rd/wrmsr cause an oops on 486 or earlier. Also using an > invalid msr number causes an oops, so use rd/wrmsr_safe(). I didn't bother implementing those checks because kdb recovers nicely from GPF anyway. It's the valid MSR writes that could cause unrecoveable problems! :) -- // Bernardo Innocenti \X/ http://www.codewiz.org/