On Mon, Jan 20, 2025, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Fix a flaw in the Intel PMU counters test where it asserts that an event is > > counting correctly without actually knowing what the event counts given the > > underlying hardware. > > > > The bug manifests as failures with the Top-Down Slots architectural event > > when running CPUs that doesn't actually support that arch event (pre-ICX). > > The arch event encoding still counts _something_, just not Top-Down Slots > > (I haven't bothered to look up what it was counting). The passed by sheer > > dumb luck until an unrelated change caused the count of the unknown event > > to drop. > > Queued for 6.14-rc1, thanks. Lies :-) Neither this nor the main selftests pull request[*] landed in 6.14. None of this is urgent, so if it's easier on your end I can carry them forward and send them for 6.15. [*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250117010718.2328467-5-seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx
