From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] x86, microcode, intel: add error logging to early update driver
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:15:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1414692902.22099.1.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141030174134.GE11178@pd.tnic>
On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 18:41 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:10:15PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > In fact, I have a patch somewhere that needs to add a new failure message:
> > we have several failure cases which we want to differentiate, at the very
> > least "processor didn't like it" and "it looks corrupt, so we didn't even
> > try to install it".
>
> Actually, I don't want to be too chatty with the loader: if the
> microcode blob passes checks but it is not for the current processor
> we're running, not saying anything is what I want to do.
>
> Why? Because I don't want to disturb people unnecessarily - if the
> microcode doesn't apply and everything else checks out, you simply don't
> need it.
>
> If one really wants to know, one can always check /proc/cpuinfo and read
> out the microcode revision from the blob. But that is for the 1% of the
> curious ones - everyone else should simply install microcode blob and
> boot machine. Fire and forget.
>
> Only the abnormal error cases should be vocal in saying what's wrong so
> that we can actually address those.
Maybe make it emit at KERN_DEBUG
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-30 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-08 17:37 [PATCH 0/8] x86, microcode, intel: fixes and enhancements Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 1/8] x86, microcode, intel: forbid some incorrect metadata Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-05 17:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-05 19:37 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-05 21:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-05 21:49 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-06 5:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 2/8] x86, microcode, intel: don't update each HT core twice Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-20 13:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-20 18:24 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-28 17:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-31 18:43 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-01 11:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-01 19:20 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-04 15:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 3/8] x86, microcode, intel: clarify log messages Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-20 13:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-21 14:13 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-29 9:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-31 20:08 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 17:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 4/8] x86, microcode, intel: add error logging to early update driver Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-20 15:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-21 14:10 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-30 17:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-30 18:15 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-10-31 20:10 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 5/8] x86, microcode, intel: don't check extsig entry checksum Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-30 20:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-31 17:14 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 17:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 6/8] x86, microcode, intel: use cpuid explicitly instead of sync_core Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 17:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-07 18:40 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 19:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 7/8] x86, microcode, intel: guard against misaligned microcode data Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-18 0:48 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 19:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-07 22:54 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 23:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-08 21:57 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-11 10:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-11 16:57 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-11 17:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-11 19:54 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-12 12:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-13 0:18 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-13 11:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-15 23:10 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-24 17:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-25 13:29 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86, microcode, intel: defend apply_microcode_intel with BUG_ON Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 20:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-07 22:56 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 23:48 ` Borislav Petkov
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