================ MSR Trace Events ================ The x86 kernel supports tracing most MSR (Model Specific Register) accesses. To see the definition of the MSRs on Intel systems please see the SDM at https://www.intel.com/sdm (Volume 3) Available trace points: /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/msr/ Trace MSR reads: read_msr - msr: MSR number - val: Value written - failed: 1 if the access failed, otherwise 0 Trace MSR writes: write_msr - msr: MSR number - val: Value written - failed: 1 if the access failed, otherwise 0 Trace RDPMC in kernel: rdpmc The trace data can be post processed with the postprocess/decode_msr.py script:: cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace | decode_msr.py /usr/src/linux/include/asm/msr-index.h to add symbolic MSR names.