Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/microcode: vsnprintf() might be unavailable

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 18:24 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 05:56:43PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Intel CPUs with x32 kernels we call load_builtin_intel_microcode() from
> > head_32.S on quite earlier stage. At that point sprintf() might be out of scope
> > to be called.
> 
> Hrrm, I don't get that. How can sprintf() be out of scope?

Initial paging setup is involved? I just sent a small update to previous
patch. Please, look at it.

> 
> Testing on 32-bit was successful here. How is x32 different?

Hmmâ which Intel CPUs you run on?

Ah, one more thing we run our kernel from kexec (I hope it's not a case,
but who knows). 

> 
> Thanks.
> 


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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy

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