Re: 4.15.17 regression: bisected: timeout during microcode update

[Vitezslav Samel]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 12:07:21PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:11:40AM +0200, Vitezslav Samel wrote:
> >   Could be done anything to prevent this panic?
> 
> Yes, for starters, is there anything preventing you from using an initrd
> and doing early microcode loading?
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt
> 
> If no, consider doing that and not using the late method which is
> problematic at best.

  I switched to firmware-in-kernel early loading and that works OK.
But still, the reported issue is regression in 4.15.17 and 4.16+.

	Thanks,

		Vita