wrmsr(1)

💖 wrmsr(1) ✨ General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, this is wrmsr, a tool from the General Commands Manual 💅 and it's how you write values into a CPU's machine specific registers (MSR) 🔥 the whole thing is the main character of CPU register drama 👑

🎀 NAME 🎀

wrmsr - tool for writing CPU machine specific registers (MSR) 🦋

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

wrmsr [options] regno value

📝 DESCRIPTION 📝

okay so wrmsr is the tool you use to write values to a CPU's machine specific registers (MSR) 💜 literally that's the whole job

ngl read this part before you start 🙈 if you're running a Debian kernel, make sure the msr.ko kernel module is loaded. modprobe msr should do the trick ✨ if you skip this, you'll get an error saying wrmsr can't open files in /dev/cpu/... 💀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --help, -h — pulls up a list of the available options 🌸
• --version, -V — shows you the current version 🍓
• --all, -a — applies it to all processors 🌈
• --processor <#>, -p — picks which processor number you want (default: 0) 🦋

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

rdmsr(1) 🫶 the reading-side sibling, lowkey the other half of this duo

✍️ AUTHOR ✍️

wrmsr was written by Transmeta Corporation ✨

this man page was contributed by Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others) 🫶

okay that's the whole tea, bestie 💖 this was wrmsr(1), from the Mar 2008 batch of manual pages, served with 💅 energy and zero cap 🌈✨