linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 08/10] x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit

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Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:57:11 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Mallick, Asit K" <asit.k.mallick@...el.com>,
	Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 08/10] x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Yu, Fenghua <fenghua.yu@...el.com> wrote:
>> From: yhlu.kernel@...il.com [mailto:yhlu.kernel@...il.com] On Behalf Of
>> Yinghai Lu
>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Yu, Fenghua <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > OSV may need the patchset based on old kernel. So I'll have the
>> patchset ready. Is this the right place to call load_ucode_bsp() in the
>> upstream kernel?
>> >
>> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
>> > index a512f56..e94b90e 100644
>> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
>> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
>> > @@ -93,6 +88,11 @@ void __init x86_64_start_kernel(char *
>> real_mode_data)
>> >         }
>> >         load_idt((const struct desc_ptr *)&idt_descr);
>> >
>> > +       /*
>> > +        * Load microcode early on BSP.
>> > +        */
>> > +       load_ucode_bsp(__va(real_mode_data));
>> > +
>> >         if (console_loglevel == 10)
>> >                 early_printk("Kernel alive\n");
>> >
>> it has to be after #PF handler set page table patch...
>>
>> otherwise when ramdisk is above 1G, customer will get early PF
>> exception.
>
> If based on your for_x86_boot tree, is load_ucode_bsp() called afer load_idt()?
>

yes.

Please do try your patches on system with more than 4G ram.

Thanks

Yinghai
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