Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 02 Dec 2014 09:36:40 -0500 | From | Boris Ostrovsky <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode: Don't initialize microcode code on paravirt |
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On 12/01/2014 05:37 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 05:31:56PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: >> I think so. The problem we have now is __pa() macro that we only use >> on 32-bit. I'll queue this for overnight tests to make sure and if it >> indeed works then 3.19 should be fine. > Cool, thanks.
All tests passed.
> I'd still take your patch for 3.19 though because I'm fixing the 32-bit > reloading path properly and will remove the ifdef afterwards. > > And even then, I'd like to prevent loading the module on a paravirt > guest if it is totally unneeded there. >
I wonder whether we should prevent all guests (not just paravirt) from loading microcode driver (and from doing early microcode loading).
-boris
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