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Date:      Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:47:03 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 207068] hwpmc wrap around/sign extension
Message-ID:  <bug-207068-8-79zzn3RN4B@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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--- Comment #5 from joss.upton@yahoo.com ---
(In reply to Konstantin Belousov from comment #4)
I don't know if Sandy Bridge supports the aliases or not.  I do know that
vmware fusion on my Broadwell machine does NOT support the IA32_A_PMCn
registers and thus will panic.

Note you may also need other processes using the PMC to be
scheduled/unscheduled to reproduce... You have to catch a case where it wri=
tes
with EAX[31]=3D1 to IA32_PMCn.  This results in an automatic sign extension=
 (as
described in the Intel arch manual, 18.2.2.3 Full-Width Writes to Performan=
ce
Counter Registers) and ignores EDX completely.

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