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From: Sergey Dyasli <sergey.dyasli@citrix.com>
To: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>, <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: "sergey.dyasli@citrix.com >> Sergey Dyasli"
	<sergey.dyasli@citrix.com>, "Ashok Raj" <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
	"Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>,
	"Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	"Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	"Brian Woods" <brian.woods@amd.com>,
	"Suravee Suthikulpanit" <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>,
	"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 00/15] improve late microcode loading
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 08:51:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7afe7bd-8370-b427-a5ee-e34019866d22@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1566177928-19114-1-git-send-email-chao.gao@intel.com>

Hi Chao,

On 19/08/2019 02:25, Chao Gao wrote:
> Previous change log:
> Changes in version 8:
>  - block #NMI handling during microcode loading (Patch 16)
>  - Don't assume that all CPUs in the system have loaded a same ucode.
>  So when parsing a blob, we attempt to save a patch as long as it matches
>  with current cpu signature regardless of the revision of the patch.
>  And also for loading, we only require the patch to be loaded isn't old
>  than the cached one.
>  - store an update after the first successful loading on a CPU
>  - remove the patch that calls wbinvd() unconditionally before microcode>  loading. It is under internal discussion.

I noticed that you removed the patch which adds wbinvd() back in v8.
What was the reasoning behind that and is there any outcome from the
internal discussion that you mention here?

>  - divide two big patches into several patches to improve readability.

Thanks,
Sergey

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-22  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-19  1:25 [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 00/15] improve late microcode loading Chao Gao
2019-08-19  1:25 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 01/15] microcode/intel: extend microcode_update_match() Chao Gao
2019-08-28 15:12   ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-29  7:15     ` Chao Gao
2019-08-29  7:14       ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-19  1:25 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 02/15] microcode/amd: fix memory leak Chao Gao
2019-08-19  1:25 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 03/15] microcode/amd: distinguish old and mismatched ucode in microcode_fits() Chao Gao
2019-08-19  1:25 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 04/15] microcode: introduce a global cache of ucode patch Chao Gao
2019-08-22 11:11   ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-08-28 15:21   ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-29 10:18   ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-19  1:25 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 05/15] microcode: clean up microcode_resume_cpu Chao Gao
2019-08-19  1:25 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 06/15] microcode: remove struct ucode_cpu_info Chao Gao
2019-08-19  1:25 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 07/15] microcode: remove pointless 'cpu' parameter Chao Gao
2019-08-19  1:25 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 08/15] microcode/amd: call svm_host_osvw_init() in common code Chao Gao
2019-08-22 13:08   ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-08-28 15:26   ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-19  1:25 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 09/15] microcode: pass a patch pointer to apply_microcode() Chao Gao
2019-08-19  1:25 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 10/15] microcode: split out apply_microcode() from cpu_request_microcode() Chao Gao
2019-08-22 13:59   ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-08-29 10:06     ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-30  3:22       ` Chao Gao
2019-08-30  7:25         ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-29 10:19   ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-19  1:25 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 11/15] microcode: unify loading update during CPU resuming and AP wakeup Chao Gao
2019-08-22 14:10   ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-08-22 16:44     ` Chao Gao
2019-08-23  9:09       ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-08-29  7:37         ` Chao Gao
2019-08-29  8:16           ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-08-29 10:26           ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-29 10:29   ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-19  1:25 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 12/15] microcode: reduce memory allocation and copy when creating a patch Chao Gao
2019-08-23  8:11   ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-08-26  7:03     ` Chao Gao
2019-08-26  8:11       ` Roger Pau Monné
2019-08-29 10:47   ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-19  1:25 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 13/15] x86/microcode: Synchronize late microcode loading Chao Gao
2019-08-19 10:27   ` Sergey Dyasli
2019-08-19 14:49     ` Chao Gao
2019-08-29 12:06   ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-30  3:30     ` Chao Gao
2019-08-19  1:25 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 14/15] microcode: remove microcode_update_lock Chao Gao
2019-08-19  1:25 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 15/15] microcode: block #NMI handling when loading an ucode Chao Gao
2019-08-23  8:46   ` Sergey Dyasli
2019-08-26  8:07     ` Chao Gao
2019-08-27  4:52       ` Chao Gao
2019-08-28  8:52         ` Sergey Dyasli
2019-08-29 12:11         ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-30  6:35           ` Chao Gao
2019-09-09  5:52             ` Chao Gao
2019-09-09  6:16               ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-29 12:22   ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-30  6:33     ` Chao Gao
2019-08-30  7:30       ` Jan Beulich
2019-08-22  7:51 ` Sergey Dyasli [this message]
2019-08-22 15:39   ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 00/15] improve late microcode loading Chao Gao

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