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x86, microcode: Don't initialize microcode code on paravirt
authorBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Mon, 1 Dec 2014 21:27:44 +0000 (16:27 -0500)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Sat, 6 Dec 2014 11:59:03 +0000 (12:59 +0100)
commit102f84ff670a1ffc98b401b60d3c904b48768fcd
tree9140df8e429762b81fef6b80f286e87c8e8c7956
parentc552161bb9a2c29c60f090672bf87469caf5b902
x86, microcode: Don't initialize microcode code on paravirt

Paravirtual guests are not expected to load microcode into processors
and therefore it is not necessary to initialize microcode loading
logic.

In fact, under certain circumstances initializing this logic may cause
the guest to crash. Specifically, 32-bit kernels use __pa_nodebug()
macro which does not work in Xen (the code path that leads to this macro
happens during resume when we call mc_bp_resume()->load_ucode_ap()
->check_loader_disabled_ap())

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1417469264-31470-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c