From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
"Chao Gao" <chao.gao@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>, Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 10/15] microcode: split out apply_microcode() from cpu_request_microcode()
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 12:06:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea7b2234-ec3f-1199-3077-a1a610883049@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190822135923.fmontcb7dofrok4c@Air-de-Roger>
On 22.08.2019 15:59, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> Seeing how this works I'm not sure what's the best option here. As
> updating will be attempted on other CPUs, I'm not sure if it's OK to
> return an error if the update succeed on some CPUs but failed on
> others.
The overall result of a partially successful update should be an
error - mismatched ucode may, after all, be more of a problem
than outdated ucode.
Jan
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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 [this message]
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 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 00/15] improve late microcode loading Sergey Dyasli
2019-08-22 15:39 ` Chao Gao
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