Re: AMD zen microcode updates breaks boot

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 07:30:15AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> At least on mine, the BIOS has an option that says something like "L3
> cache as numa domain", which is on and why there's 32 nodes on that box.
> It's pretty handy for testing since there's a crap ton of CPUs, as it
> makes affinity handling easier.

Right, so two boxes I tested with this:

* 2 socket, a bit different microcode:

[   22.947525] smp: Brought up 32 nodes, 512 CPUs

* your CPU, one socket:

[   26.830137] smp: Brought up 16 nodes, 255 CPUs
[   37.770789] microcode: Current revision: 0x0aa00215
[   37.776231] microcode: Updated early from: 0x0aa00215

and both boot with my debugging patch just fine.

Hmm.

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