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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/microcode: vsnprintf() might be unavailable
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 19:49:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1433263793.26331.42.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150602162403.GD20576@pd.tnic>

On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 18:24 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 05:56:43PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Intel CPUs with x32 kernels we call load_builtin_intel_microcode() from
> > head_32.S on quite earlier stage. At that point sprintf() might be out of scope
> > to be called.
> 
> Hrrm, I don't get that. How can sprintf() be out of scope?

Initial paging setup is involved? I just sent a small update to previous
patch. Please, look at it.

> 
> Testing on 32-bit was successful here. How is x32 different?

Hmm… which Intel CPUs you run on?

Ah, one more thing we run our kernel from kexec (I hope it's not a case,
but who knows). 

> 
> Thanks.
> 


-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy


  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-02 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-02 14:56 [PATCH 1/1] x86/microcode: vsnprintf() might be unavailable Andy Shevchenko
2015-06-02 16:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-02 16:49   ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2015-06-02 17:00     ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-02 17:31       ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-06-03 10:56         ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-03 15:27           ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-06-03 17:49             ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2015-06-03 21:13               ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-04  9:21                 ` [PATCH] x86/microcode: Disable builtin microcode loading on 32-bit for now Borislav Petkov
2015-06-04  9:47                   ` Shevchenko, Andriy
2015-06-02 16:46 ` [PATCH 1/1] x86/microcode: vsnprintf() might be unavailable Andy Shevchenko

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