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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@amd.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Ian.Campbell@citrix.com, Christoph_Egger@gmx.de, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/ucode: Improve error handling and container file processing on AMD
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 10:25:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C20A6D.3010803@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50C2147C02000078000AEFCC@nat28.tlf.novell.com>



On 12/07/2012 10:08 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 07.12.12 at 14:46, Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@amd.com> wrote:
>> Do we really need what microcode_init() does?
>
> Oh yes, absolutely. How else would boot time microcode loading
> work for secondary CPUs without this? Note that the notifier only
> deals with the CPU_DEAD case.

start_secondary() -> microcode_resume_cpu() -> 
microcode_ops->apply_microcode() will update non-boot CPUs in most cases.

This won't quite work when secondary CPU is different from (or at 
different patch level than) boot CPU but that can be fixed.

-boris

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-07 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-06 18:28 [PATCH] x86/ucode: Improve error handling and container file processing on AMD Boris Ostrovsky
2012-12-07 10:21 ` Ian Campbell
2012-12-07 11:41 ` Jan Beulich
2012-12-07 13:46   ` Boris Ostrovsky
2012-12-07 15:08     ` Jan Beulich
2012-12-07 15:25       ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2012-12-07 15:42         ` Jan Beulich

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