Re: [PATCH 3.17 100/141] x86, microcode: Fix accessing dis_ucode_ldr on 32-bit

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On 11/25/2014 02:08 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 01:55:29PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
On 11/25/2014 01:43 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 01:43:26PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
I don't think this routine is called on PV.
They're either both called or none is. At least on baremetal, that is.

PV guests don't start with startup_32.

We are coming from a resume into load_ucode_ap as:
Btw, why is this thing even running on xen? I'd like to make
CONFIG_MICROCODE depend on !PARAVIRT and be done with it.

You'd have to decide at runtime --- many baremetal systems are compiled with PARAVIRT.

-boris

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