On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 02:09:35PM +0000, Rolf Neugebauer wrote:
> The backport of 7e702d17ed1 ("x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW
> late-loading further with LLC size check") to 4.9.79 and 4.4.14 causes
> a division by zero panic on some single vCPU machine types on Google
> Cloud (e.g. g1-small and n1-standard-1):
The microcode loader is not supposed to load in a guest.
Greg, I guess you need something like this:
a15a753539ec ("x86/microcode/AMD: Do not load when running on a hypervisor")
I haven't tried whether it applies cleanly though...
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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