Re: [PATCH -v1 2/2] x86/microcode: Add microcode loader debugging functionality

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sat Aug 30 2025 - 05:25:46 EST


On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 04:25:13PM -0700, Sohil Mehta wrote:
> My only concern is someone could easily enable it by mistake. It might
> lead to unnecessary reports and debug. Maybe we print a scary dmesg log
> whenever CONFIG_MICROCODE_DBG is enabled? That would be easy to spot in
> reports, and hopefully it would deter folks from enabling it unnecessarily.

When that happens, we'll add the cmdline switch as an additional precaution
but I'm not worried - we look .configs on bug reports.

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Boris.

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