Setting DEBUGCTL MSR to 1 fails

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Setting DEBUGCTL MSR to 1 fails

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Hi.

I have a windows driver that sets the DEBUGCTL MSR (0x1d9) to 1 in order to later get the LBR stack. It worked perfectly on all computers I tested so far.

However it seems not to work on a server I tested that has 2 Intel Xeon E-2620 processors inside. I believe it's based on the Sandy Bride microarchitecture.

I wrote a code in a windows driver that sets the DEBUGCTL to 1, and then reads the value of the MSR. To my surprise, the value remains 0!

For other MSRs it does work, so I believe that the problem is with this specific MSR.

Did someone ever come across such an error? Is there some flag that I need to turn on in order to change the DEBUGCTL?

Any help would be very appreciated! I've been trying trying to solve this issue for almost a week now.

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