Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/microcode: vsnprintf() might be unavailable

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, 2015-06-03 at 12:56 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 08:31:58PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Ditto.
> 
> "Ditto" means it doesn't work booting a normal 32-bit kernel too?

Ditto, meant to test when I will be at work again :-)

But, unfortunately it doesn't. I did two images of next-20150602 with
and without this patch and 100% success and failure respectively (do
each test twice).

I have tested with 32-bit kernel run as EFI 32 binary from EFI Shell on
ASuS T100TA (Intel BayTrail-T):

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 55
model name      : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  Z3740  @ 1.33GHz
stepping        : 3
microcode       : 0x31e
cpu MHz         : 1330.000

> > I have a totally empty screen (serial console). So, if you teach me
> > how to gather that I could do it later on.
> 
> That'll be hard - you'd probably need a hardware debugger or something
> special to get a RIP or other data that early... Or hack up some very
> early console printing with BIOS methods and so on. hpa had something
> like that somewhere AFAIR...

I could try kvm / qemu as well, though there might be not the same
conditions.

> > I can send our defconfig and kexec command line for sure.
> 
> Yes please.

Here is the difference to the i386_defconfig as in next-20150602:

diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig
b/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig
index aaa1118..7579120 100644
--- a/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DETECT_IRQ=y
 CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RSA=y
 CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y
 CONFIG_NVRAM=y
-CONFIG_HPET=y
+# CONFIG_HPET is not set
 # CONFIG_HPET_MMAP is not set
 CONFIG_I2C_I801=y
 CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
@@ -212,7 +212,8 @@ CONFIG_AGP=y
 CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
 CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y
 CONFIG_DRM=y
-CONFIG_DRM_I915=y
+# CONFIG_DRM_I915 is not set
+CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT=y
 CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
 CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING=y
 CONFIG_FB_EFI=y
@@ -229,8 +230,8 @@ CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y
 CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y
 CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
 CONFIG_SND_HRTIMER=y
-CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=y
-CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y
+# CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL is not set
+# CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP is not set
 CONFIG_HIDRAW=y
 CONFIG_HID_GYRATION=y
 CONFIG_LOGITECH_FF=y
@@ -310,3 +311,55 @@ CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM=y
 CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DISABLE=y
 CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_586=y
 # CONFIG_CRYPTO_ANSI_CPRNG is not set
+CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y
+CONFIG_I2C_DESIGNWARE_PCI=y
+CONFIG_I2C_DESIGNWARE_PLATFORM=m
+CONFIG_GPIOLIB=y
+CONFIG_GPIO_INTEL_MID=y
+CONFIG_INTEL_MID_WATCHDOG=y
+CONFIG_NOP_USB_XCEIV=y
+CONFIG_USB_CHIPIDEA=y
+CONFIG_USB_CHIPIDEA_UDC=y
+CONFIG_USB_CHIPIDEA_HOST=y
+CONFIG_X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM=y
+CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MID=y
+CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y
+CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_EFI=y
+CONFIG_FB=y
+CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
+CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y
+CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y
+CONFIG_USB_DWC3=y
+CONFIG_USB_DWC3_GADGET=y
+CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=y
+CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_PL2303=y
+CONFIG_USB_USBNET=y
+CONFIG_USB_NET_AX88179_178A=y
+CONFIG_USB_NET_MCS7830=y
+CONFIG_USB_NET_AX8817X=y
+CONFIG_X86_INTEL_LPSS=y
+CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME=y
+CONFIG_DW_DMAC_CORE=m
+CONFIG_DW_DMAC=m
+CONFIG_DW_DMAC_PCI=m
+CONFIG_DMATEST=m
+CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DMA=y
+CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI=y
+CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DW=m
+CONFIG_MMC=m
+CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI=m
+CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_ACPI=m
+CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG=y
+CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER=y
+CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP=y
+CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ=y
+CONFIG_PINCTRL=y
+CONFIG_PINCTRL_BAYTRAIL=y
+CONFIG_PWM=y
+CONFIG_PWM_LPSS=m
+CONFIG_PWM_LPSS_PCI=m
+CONFIG_PWM_LPSS_PLATFORM=m
+CONFIG_SPI=y
+CONFIG_SPI_PXA2XX_PCI=m
+CONFIG_SPI_PXA2XX=m


kexec command:

kexec -l $bootdir/vmlinuz --initrd $bootdir/initrd
--command-line="$cmdline"

cmdline (in case of kexec the acpi_rdsp=0xdeadbeaf is added, 0xdeadbeaf
not an actual address):

console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200n8 ignore_loglevel spidev.bufsiz=8192


P.S. I could test any configuration you suppose if it's needed. 

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