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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] IBRS patch series
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:01:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180105140145.GA24434@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1515160065.3305.6.camel@debian.org>

On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 02:47:45PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 14:28 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > > iucode-tool -L -tr n10ur16w.iso |grep 2017-11
> > >    001/020: sig 0x000306d4, pf_mask 0xc0, 2017-11-17, rev 0x0028, size
> > > 18432
> > 
> > That's been out for a while now:
> >         https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27337/Linux-Processor-Micr
> > ocode-Data-File
> > 
> > so I really don't think this is an "update" yet.
> 
> Actually for my processor (0x000306d4 / i5-5200U) this release (20171117) only
> contains:
> 
>   050/001: sig 0x000306d4, pf_mask 0xc0, 2017-01-27, rev 0x0025, size 17408
> 
> I find it weird that the Intel release from 2017-11-17 doesn't contain a
> microcode file supposedly released on the same day, but it seems to be the
> case.

Doh, same here, sorry about that, should have checked the microcode
image file myself.

> > I saw a bios update for my Dell laptop dated December 28, but it didn't
> > seem to change anything with the cpuids or microcode status from before.
> 
> Not sure which distribution you use nowadays but Henrique just pushed a
> microcode update to Debian with some collected microcodes:
> 
> https://tracker.debian.org/news/899110
> 
> Obviously it lacks a *lot* of processors (especially pre-Haswell).

I'm running Arch, but it would be nice to know where those microcode
updates came from, given that they aren't on the "official" Intel page
yet :)

> > A hard answer to what "soon" means here would be nice to get, as I'm
> > seeing a lot of misunderstanding floating around right now :(
> 
> Agreed, but I'm not sure who can provide the information.

That's why I'm asking here, hopefully Arjan might have an idea.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-05 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 114+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-04 17:56 [PATCH 0/7] IBRS patch series Tim Chen
2018-01-04 17:56 ` [PATCH 1/7] x86/feature: Detect the x86 feature to control Speculation Tim Chen
2018-01-04 19:58   ` Greg KH
2018-01-04 20:47     ` Tim Chen
2018-01-05 11:14   ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-05 15:14     ` Tom Lendacky
2018-01-05 17:07       ` Tim Chen
2018-01-05 13:09   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-05 13:44     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-05 13:51       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-04 17:56 ` [PATCH 2/7] x86/enter: MACROS to set/clear IBRS Tim Chen
2018-01-04 22:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-04 22:21     ` Tim Chen
2018-01-04 22:23       ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-05  4:54         ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-05  5:05           ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-05 13:19       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-04 17:56 ` [PATCH 3/7] x86/enter: Use IBRS on syscall and interrupts Tim Chen
2018-01-04 20:00   ` Greg KH
2018-01-04 20:26     ` Tim Chen
2018-01-04 20:45   ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-04 22:33   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-04 23:12     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-05  0:08     ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-05  4:51       ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-05  5:11         ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-05 12:01           ` Alan Cox
2018-01-05 13:35   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-04 17:56 ` [PATCH 4/7] x86/idle: Disable IBRS entering idle and enable it on wakeup Tim Chen
2018-01-04 22:47   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-04 23:00     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-04 23:22     ` Tim Chen
2018-01-04 23:42       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-04 23:45         ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-05  0:03           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-08  8:24       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-04 17:56 ` [PATCH 5/7] x86: Use IBRS for firmware update path Tim Chen
2018-01-04 18:48   ` Alan Cox
2018-01-04 20:05   ` Greg KH
2018-01-04 20:08     ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-05 16:08       ` gregkh
2018-01-05 16:37         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-04 20:21     ` Andrew Cooper
2018-01-04 20:48     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-04 20:51   ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2018-01-04 21:13     ` Tim Chen
2018-01-04 22:51   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-05 13:40   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-04 17:56 ` [PATCH 6/7] x86/spec_ctrl: Add sysctl knobs to enable/disable SPEC_CTRL feature Tim Chen
2018-01-04 18:33   ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-04 18:36     ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-04 18:52       ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-04 18:57         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-04 18:59         ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-04 19:06           ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-05 13:48       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-04 18:38     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-04 18:54       ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-04 18:56         ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-04 18:55       ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-04 18:34   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-04 19:02     ` Tim Chen
2018-01-04 18:50   ` Alan Cox
2018-01-04 20:16   ` Greg KH
2018-01-04 20:58     ` Tim Chen
2018-01-04 22:54   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-04 23:26     ` Tim Chen
2018-01-04 23:51       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-04 23:59         ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-05  0:07           ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-05 11:16   ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-06  1:29     ` Tim Chen
2018-01-04 17:56 ` [PATCH 7/7] x86/microcode: Recheck IBRS features on microcode reload Tim Chen
2018-01-04 18:28   ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-04 18:34     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-04 18:50       ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-04 19:10         ` Tim Chen
2018-01-05 13:32         ` Greg KH
2018-01-05 13:37           ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-05 13:47             ` Greg KH
2018-01-05 15:28           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-04 19:00 ` [PATCH 0/7] IBRS patch series Linus Torvalds
2018-01-04 19:19   ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-04 19:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2018-01-04 19:39       ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-04 19:40       ` Andrew Cooper
2018-01-04 19:46         ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-04 21:22       ` Van De Ven, Arjan
2018-01-05 11:32         ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-05 12:09           ` Paul Turner
2018-01-05 14:45           ` Van De Ven, Arjan
2018-01-05 14:43         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-05 14:52           ` Van De Ven, Arjan
2018-01-05 15:03             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-05 14:54           ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-05 11:52       ` Paul Turner
2018-01-05 14:28         ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-05 14:42           ` Van De Ven, Arjan
2018-01-05 15:38             ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-05 16:05               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-05 16:37                 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-05 16:42                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-01-05 16:44                     ` Van De Ven, Arjan
2018-01-05 16:46                     ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-05  5:25   ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-05 11:05     ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-04 19:05 ` Justin Forbes
2018-01-04 19:10   ` Tim Chen
2018-01-04 21:01     ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2018-01-05 13:28       ` Greg KH
2018-01-05 13:47         ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2018-01-05 14:01           ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-01-05 14:26             ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-05 14:54               ` Yves-Alexis Perez

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