Re: [Xen-devel] Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896

2016-12-16 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 16/12/2016 09:01, Borislav Petkov wrote: > @@ -91,6 +92,17 @@ static bool __init check_loader_disabled_bsp(void) > if (cmdline_find_option_bool(cmdline, option)) > *res = true; > > + if (!have_cpuid_p()) > + *res = true; > + > + a = 1; > + c = 0; > +

Re: [Xen-devel] Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896

2016-12-15 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 04:59:49PM +, Andrew Cooper wrote: > Xen has the same logic as Linux does to look for an uncompressed > microcode blob in the initrd and apply it early in boot. > > If dom0 goes looking, it should see the same microcode version as it has > in its initrd. So it sounds t

Re: [Xen-devel] Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896

2016-12-15 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 15/12/16 16:53, Jan Beulich wrote: On 15.12.16 at 17:46, wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 05:12:04PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >>> with today's kernel the system isn't coming up when booted as Xen dom0: >> Remind me again pls, is dom0 even supposed to load microcode? Isn't the >> hyperv

Re: [Xen-devel] Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896

2016-12-15 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 15.12.16 at 17:46, wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 05:12:04PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >> with today's kernel the system isn't coming up when booted as Xen dom0: > > Remind me again pls, is dom0 even supposed to load microcode? Isn't the > hypervisor supposed to apply microcode? Yes,