Re: x86-32: Early microcode loading stumbles over disabledDYNAMIC_FTRACE

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 06:40:46PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Below some hunks to get it working again - at least in the absence of
> any microcode in the initrd. Marking all involved functions as __init
> is another option (as __init implies notrace). But I bet there is more
> hidden. I see e.g. a pr_warn() in find_cpio_init that should trigger
> the issue as well if we hit the error it reports (btw. printing at
> this point of the boot should not work anyway, should it?).

I guess we can do early_printk there instead as x86_64_start_kernel()
does it but I'm not sure for the 32-bit case where we call
load_ucode_bsp/ap before we've even enabled paging.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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