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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
	andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@elte.hu, ming.m.lin@intel.com,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>,
	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86: check ucode before disabling PEBS on SandyBridge
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:07:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120612190720.GA11137@aftab.osrc.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD78BE6.4060207@zytor.com>

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:35:18AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Andi just alerted me to this thread.
> 
> I, Thomas and Borislav discussed this at LCE last year, and it really
> comes up that we have a *large* number of reasons to load microcode
> early.  We then need to keep the microcode around so that it can be
> loaded on APs, hotplug CPUs, and after S3 resume.
> 
> The protocol discussion happened in this thread:
> 
> http://marc.info/?i=1332512984-79664-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de
> 
> Fenghua Yu at Intel is currently working on the implementation.

Nice, this is the initrd cpio thing, cool, no changes needed for the
bootloader. Ping me when you have something ready so that I can start
testing it here too.

Thanks guys.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-12 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-07  7:15 [PATCH] perf/x86: check ucode before disabling PEBS on SandyBridge Stephane Eranian
2012-06-07 10:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-07 10:35   ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-07 10:45     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-07 10:48       ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-07 11:15         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08  9:35           ` Ingo Molnar
2012-06-08 10:00             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 10:03               ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-08 13:26               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 13:51                 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-08 13:54                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 14:15                     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-08 14:20                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 14:36                         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-08 14:45                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 15:09                             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-08 13:56                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 14:03                     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-08 13:59                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 14:03                     ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-08 14:17                       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-08 16:02                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-08 21:02                   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-08 21:16                     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-08 14:07                 ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-08 14:13                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 14:19                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-08 14:23                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 14:26                     ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-08 14:25                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 14:26                     ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-12  8:14                     ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-08 16:28                 ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-08 18:49                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 16:50                 ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-08 18:05                 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-08 18:52                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 20:38                     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-12 17:07                 ` Robert Richter
2012-06-12 17:09                   ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-12 17:13                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-12 17:17                       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-12 17:18                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-12 17:23                           ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-12 17:26                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-12 17:35                               ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-12 17:40                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-12 18:04                                   ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-12 20:10                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-13  1:04                                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-13  6:51                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-13 12:36                                     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-13 16:11                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-13 21:41                                         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-15 12:37                                         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-15 12:42                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-15 12:52                                             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-15 16:52                                               ` [PATCH] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system Borislav Petkov
2012-06-15 17:16                                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-15 17:49                                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-19  2:46                                                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-19  3:31                                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-19  5:11                                                     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-19  8:17                                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-19 10:22                                                         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-19 10:26                                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-19 15:06                                                             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-19 15:57                                                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-19 18:22                                                             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-19 20:22                                                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-20 23:46                                                                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-20 23:49                                                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-21  0:06                                                                     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-21  0:18                                                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-21  2:33                                                                         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-19  5:03                                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-19 18:57                                                     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-19 22:19                                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-19  2:42                                           ` [PATCH] perf/x86: check ucode before disabling PEBS on SandyBridge Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-12 17:23                       ` Robert Richter
2012-06-12 17:15                     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-07 13:28   ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-07 13:27 ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-12 18:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-12 19:07   ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2012-06-12 19:33     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-12 19:35       ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-12 19:49       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-12 20:28         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-12 20:37           ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-12 20:42             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-12 20:56               ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-12 20:58                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-12 21:04                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-13  8:38                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-13 14:00                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-13 15:37                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-13 15:46                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-13 12:39               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-13 13:22                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-13 14:01                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-13  8:32         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-13 13:59           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-13 15:32             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-13 15:38               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-12 20:27       ` H. Peter Anvin

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