Re: x86-32: Early microcode loading stumbles over disabled DYNAMIC_FTRACE

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2013-08-23 22:17, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 06:40:46PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Below some hunks to get it working again - at least in the absence of
>> any microcode in the initrd. Marking all involved functions as __init
>> is another option (as __init implies notrace). But I bet there is more
>> hidden. I see e.g. a pr_warn() in find_cpio_init that should trigger
>> the issue as well if we hit the error it reports (btw. printing at
>> this point of the boot should not work anyway, should it?).
> 
> I guess we can do early_printk there instead as x86_64_start_kernel()
> does it but I'm not sure for the 32-bit case where we call
> load_ucode_bsp/ap before we've even enabled paging.

early_printk doesn't seem to work as well on 32-bit until paging was
enabled.

Jan

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