Re: [tip:x86/microcode] x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early updateucode on Intel's CPU

[Yinghai Lu]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:11 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/17/2012 02:47 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>>
>> Peter, can you check that branch again?
>>
>> I moved the early_trap_init after init_mem_mapping.
>> so for 64bit native, init_mem_mapping will setup page table for ram from
>> blank.
>>
>
> Looks better, at first glance at least.  There are a couple of unnecessary
> changes (the counter in head_64.S cannot exceed 32 bits once computed, so
> the change from %rcx to %ecx change is pointless.)

ok,  return to use %ecx

>
> There is another bug in my patch: it either needs to mask off the NX bit if
> we are running on non-NX-enabled hardware, or it needs to not set the NX bit
> (which is mostly okay that early on, I suspect.)

i test that in kvm guest, and westmere, current version seem ok.

will repost the patchset to list to get more review.

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