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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h index 084ef95274cd..95203d40ffdd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h @@ -169,7 +169,14 @@ static inline int wrmsr_safe(unsigned msr, unsigned low, unsigned high) return native_write_msr_safe(msr, low, high); } -/* rdmsr with exception handling */ +/* + * rdmsr with exception handling. + * + * Please note that the exception handling works only after we've + * switched to the "smart" #GP handler in trap_init() which knows about + * exception tables - using this macro earlier than that causes machine + * hangs on boxes which do not implement the @msr in the first argument. + */ #define rdmsr_safe(msr, p1, p2) \ ({ \ int __err; \ |