From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>, "Yu\,
Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>, X86-ML <x86@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:21:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE4B796.3050009@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d34r5n4f.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix>
On 06/22/2012 09:26 AM, Nix wrote:
> On 20 Jun 2012, Borislav Petkov uttered the following:
>> I know, right. Whose idea was it to do it like that I don't know.
>> AFAICT, Intel delivers ucode as a single blob too, so why split it? The
>> driver picks out the right blob anyway.
>
> Only if supplied over the old interface. Over the new interface,
> we just see
>
> microcode: error! Bad data in microcode data file
>
> in the log. So clearly the driver doesn't know how to split up the
> microcode.bin that Intel provides, and (until Henrique's iucode-tool or
> something like it becomes ubiquitous) the old interface, and
> microcode_ctl, cannot be removed.
>
Even more importantly, to do early microcode updates we need to stash
away not just the current CPU's microcode but any compatible CPU's
microcode, so just loading a single one is not going to work...
Oif.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-22 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-19 16:03 [PATCH 0/2] x86, microcode: Reload ucode only per-system Borislav Petkov
2012-06-19 16:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface Borislav Petkov
2012-06-19 18:25 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
[not found] ` <CANDHA0iu+QtQn=UxjpN34U=Ob4ABkZc4VWpPT5EidAgZm59JJQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-06-19 23:15 ` Yu, Fenghua
2012-06-19 23:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-19 16:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Make reload interface per system Borislav Petkov
2012-06-19 18:26 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
[not found] ` <CANDHA0jf2fLOtg1E6CbyNM=omn=kj=YoRJ3VTkNA0AhkS-MLtg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-06-19 23:10 ` Yu, Fenghua
2012-06-19 23:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 3:26 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-20 9:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 23:10 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-20 8:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-20 9:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 10:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-20 10:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 10:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-20 10:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 10:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-20 11:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-22 18:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-23 1:54 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-23 2:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-20 23:21 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-20 23:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-22 16:26 ` Nix
2012-06-22 18:21 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-06-23 1:32 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-20 23:08 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-20 23:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-20 23:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 23:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-20 23:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 23:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-20 23:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 23:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-21 10:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-21 23:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-22 2:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-22 3:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-22 3:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-22 6:41 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2012-06-20 23:59 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-20 23:50 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-21 0:02 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-21 8:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-21 9:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-21 23:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-21 23:00 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-06-22 3:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-20 13:18 ` Borislav Petkov
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