linux-kernel - Re: [Patch V1 7/7] x86/microcode/intel: Print when early microcode loading fails

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Message-ID: <Y442GzMi1EE9SV5R@a4bf019067fa.jf.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 5 Dec 2022 10:19:07 -0800
From:   Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, X86-kernel <x86@...nel.org>,
        "LKML Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, <alison.schofield@...el.com>,
        <reinette.chatre@...el.com>, Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch V1 7/7] x86/microcode/intel: Print when early microcode
 loading fails

On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 08:30:52PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29 2022 at 13:08, Ashok Raj wrote:
> 
> > Currently when early microcode loading fails there is no way for user to
> 
> the user
> 
> > know that the update failed.
> >
> > Store the failed status and pass it to print_ucode_info() to let early
> > loading failures to captured in console log.
> 
> so that early loading failures are captured in dmesg.
> 
> Hmm?

Thanks for the review Thomas. 

Boris, I have fixups to address all of Thomas's comments. Would you
like me to repost a new series with those fixups?

I'll drop patch1, since you have merged it in tip. You have a candidate for
patch2 as well, maybe I can drop that as well.

This patch has a type cast warning for 32bit compiles that I have fixed as
well.

I added a new patch to address Thomas's comment to print revs only when
loading succeeds[1].

Cheers,
Ashok

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/874judpqqd.ffs@tglx/