linux-kernel - Re: 4.15.17 regression: bisected: timeout during microcode update

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Message-ID: <20180420095220.GA13977@pd.tnic>
Date:   Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:52:20 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Vitezslav Samel <vitezslav@...el.cz>
Cc:     "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4.15.17 regression: bisected: timeout during microcode update

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 08:20:21AM +0200, Vitezslav Samel wrote:
>   ;-)  This time it works.

Good. :-)

> microcode: __reload_late: CPU1 waiting to exit
> x86/CPU: CPU features have changed after loading microcode, but might not take effect.
> x86/CPU: Please consider either early loading through initrd/built-in or a potential BIOS update.
> ------------------------------------------------------

Ok, and after this happens

$ grep microcode /proc/cpuinfo | uniq

shows only 0x24, correct?

> 	Thank you very much,

No, thank you for reporting and testing!

Ok, cleaned up patches with commit messages coming up.

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