Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode: Remove unnecessary paravirt_enabled check

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Feb 19 2016 - 05:46:52 EST


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:33:46PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> No, the commit 84aba677f009 as of today's linux-next on which I commented.

You commented under the "> A subsequent commit, fbae4ba8c4a3" which confused me
as to which commit is the culprit.

> commit 84aba677f009e20185aea322563389ad56e0ef7e
> Author: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Feb 16 09:43:19 2016 +0100
>
> x86/microcode: Remove unnecessary paravirt_enabled check
>
> One more thing: I run this kernel as a second from kexec. It might be
> related as well. For now I have no possibility to run it as a first
> kernel.

Well, how exactly are you triggering this? Do you have a splat or some
other register dump so that I can try to pinpoint this. I'll need more
info so that I can reproduce it here and debug it.

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Boris.

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