linux-kernel - Re: Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment

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Message-ID: <CACMCwJLTWi=8yyhdxjsnwtqc_M7K4fPaJtB9PRiq_sz_q0R3UA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:47:32 +0200
From:   Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@...il.com>
To:     "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, johannes.berg@...el.com,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment

On 1/16/20, Raj, Ashok <ashok.raj@...el.com> wrote:
> I don't suspect the alignment issue during microcode load to trigger
> any hangs after couple days.

Microcode was properly aligned when it was loaded to CPU.

> Can you please also document the OEM, BIOS versions, and also both the
> old and new microcode versions after the update.
>
> Would suggest logging the hang issue in public github for microcode issues.
> This would let the product folks look at them.
>
> https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files

I opened issue there.

https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files/issues/23

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