From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Asit K Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>,
Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>,
Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/12] x86/microcode: Early load microcode
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:47:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50EC77DB.6090300@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130108194633.GA15194@phenom.dumpdata.com>
On 01/08/2013 11:46 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>
> OK. I am trying to figure out whether this usage of native_* for the
> MSRs was done on purpose - and it sounds like the answer is no. If so -
> can it be done using the normal 'safe_rdmsr' and 'wrmsr'?
>
> That would allow at least in the case of Xen, to omit a whole bunch
> of MSR writes/reads during the boot that are not neccessary as we would
> not trap in the hypervisor - but could use the pvops version of
> read/write MSR calls to just do a nop.
>
Why is this code invoked on Xen at all? That seems crazy.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-08 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-21 7:44 [PATCH v5 00/12] x86/microcode: Early load microcode Fenghua Yu
2012-12-21 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 01/12] Documentation/x86: " Fenghua Yu
2013-01-31 22:25 ` [tip:x86/microcode] x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading tip-bot for Fenghua Yu
2012-12-21 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 02/12] x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode Fenghua Yu
2013-01-31 22:26 ` [tip:x86/microcode] " tip-bot for Fenghua Yu
2012-12-21 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 03/12] x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function Fenghua Yu
2013-01-31 22:27 ` [tip:x86/microcode] " tip-bot for Fenghua Yu
2012-12-21 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 04/12] x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP Fenghua Yu
2013-01-31 22:28 ` [tip:x86/microcode] " tip-bot for Fenghua Yu
2012-12-21 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 05/12] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode Fenghua Yu
2013-01-31 22:29 ` [tip:x86/microcode] " tip-bot for Fenghua Yu
2012-12-21 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 06/12] x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU Fenghua Yu
2013-01-31 22:31 ` [tip:x86/microcode] " tip-bot for Fenghua Yu
2012-12-21 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 07/12] x86/tlbflush.h: Define __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled() Fenghua Yu
2013-01-31 22:32 ` [tip:x86/microcode] " tip-bot for Fenghua Yu
2012-12-21 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 08/12] x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU Fenghua Yu
2013-01-31 22:33 ` [tip:x86/microcode] " tip-bot for Fenghua Yu
2012-12-21 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 09/12] x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit Fenghua Yu
2013-01-31 22:34 ` [tip:x86/microcode] " tip-bot for Fenghua Yu
2012-12-21 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 10/12] x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit Fenghua Yu
2013-01-31 22:35 ` [tip:x86/microcode] " tip-bot for Fenghua Yu
2012-12-21 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 11/12] x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to kernel memory Fenghua Yu
2013-01-31 22:37 ` [tip:x86/microcode] " tip-bot for Fenghua Yu
2012-12-21 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 12/12] x86/Kconfig: Configurations to enable/disable the feature Fenghua Yu
2013-01-31 22:38 ` [tip:x86/microcode] x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature tip-bot for Fenghua Yu
2013-01-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v5 00/12] x86/microcode: Early load microcode Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-01-03 17:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-08 19:46 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-01-08 19:47 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-01-08 20:04 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-01-08 20:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-09 13:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2023-10-09 12:29 ` [tip: x86/microcode] x86/microcode/32: Move early loading after paging enable tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
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