From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753269AbaHKKW1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2014 06:22:27 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:42257 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752385AbaHKKWZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2014 06:22:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:22:45 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: H Peter Anvin , Fenghua Yu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BUG: early intel microcode update violating alignment rules Message-ID: <20140811102245.GC4236@nazgul.tnic> References: <20140809231911.GA4843@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140809231911.GA4843@khazad-dum.debian.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 08:19:11PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Is there a way to fix this in the kernel for the BSP? I think you're looking at this the wrong way around. :-) The thing that needs fixing is the SDM since some CPUs seem to accept 16-byte unaligned microcode just fine.