From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
x86 <x86@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: x86-32: Early microcode loading stumbles over disabled DYNAMIC_FTRACE
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 07:07:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130831050737.GB12617@x1.alien8.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130830201741.07fea07f@gandalf.local.home>
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 08:17:41PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:48:55 -0700
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
> > >> You *could* bail out of the calling address is < PAGE_OFFSET.
> >
> > Anyway... can we add this to the static tracing code? It is two
> > instructions and is only needed on x86-32. For performance, use dynamic.
>
> Sure, do you want to add it ?
Another, simpler option could be to make static tracing depend on
!MICROCODE until the first has been removed.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-31 5:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-23 16:40 x86-32: Early microcode loading stumbles over disabled DYNAMIC_FTRACE Jan Kiszka
2013-08-23 20:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-26 8:50 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-08-30 15:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-30 15:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-30 16:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-30 17:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-30 17:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-30 17:25 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-30 17:33 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-08-30 20:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-31 0:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-31 5:07 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-08-31 5:23 ` Steven Rostedt
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