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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 3.17 100/141] x86, microcode: Fix accessing dis_ucode_ldr on 32-bit

    On 11/26/2014 5:55 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
    > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 12:00:45AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
    >> Sigh... I take this back. It breaks 32-bit baremetal. I haven't looked any
    >> further but it seems to be dying very early. I suspect cpuid pv_op is not
    >> set up yet. If that's true, perhaps you could check whether it is valid in
    >> x86_guest()?
    > Right, this is why we're using the native variants in the early loader.
    > So we need a different method for detecting very early whether we're
    > running as a guest.
    >
    > What I'd like more, though, is if we continue debugging the original
    > issue where we fail in load_ucode_intel_ap(). Does it happen on this line:
    >
    > initrd_start_addr = (unsigned long)__pa_nodebug(*initrd_start_p);

    I don't have access to my test setup right now (and won't be until late
    today at best) but I am pretty sure this was the line when I was looking
    at this yesterday.

    >
    > where we deref the initrd_start_p? Do you have a full splat with a Code:
    > section?

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/25/973 is all I have right now.


    -boris


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