On 26.11.2019 16:41, Sergey Dyasli wrote: > Currently if a user tries to live-load the same or older ucode revision > than CPU already has, he will get a single message in Xen log like: > > (XEN) 128 cores are to update their microcode > > No actual ucode loading will happen and this situation can be quite > confusing. Fix this by starting ucode update only when the provided > ucode revision is higher than the currently cached one (if any). > This is based on the property that if microcode_cache exists, all CPUs > in the system should have at least that ucode revision. > > Additionally, print a user friendly message if no matching or newer > ucode can be found in the provided blob. This also requires ignoring > -ENODATA in AMD-side code, otherwise the message given to the user is: > > (XEN) Parsing microcode blob error -61 > > Which actually means that a ucode blob was parsed fine, but no matching > ucode was found. > > Signed-off-by: Sergey Dyasli <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
