Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode: Remove unnecessary paravirt_enabled check

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Feb 19 2016 - 05:50:51 EST


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:33:46PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> No, the commit 84aba677f009 as of today's linux-next on which I commented.
>
> You commented under the "> A subsequent commit, fbae4ba8c4a3" which confused me
> as to which commit is the culprit.

Yeah, at least now it's clear I suppose.

>> commit 84aba677f009e20185aea322563389ad56e0ef7e
>> Author: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Tue Feb 16 09:43:19 2016 +0100
>>
>> x86/microcode: Remove unnecessary paravirt_enabled check
>>
>> One more thing: I run this kernel as a second from kexec. It might be
>> related as well. For now I have no possibility to run it as a first
>> kernel.
>
> Well, how exactly are you triggering this? Do you have a splat or some
> other register dump so that I can try to pinpoint this. I'll need more
> info so that I can reproduce it here and debug it.

It stuck at some point during boot. I'm trying to get earlycon or
earlyprintk to show me something...

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko