Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 00/15] improve late microcode loading

2019-08-22 Thread Chao Gao
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 08:51:43AM +0100, Sergey Dyasli wrote: >Hi Chao, > >On 19/08/2019 02:25, Chao Gao wrote: >> Previous change log: >> Changes in version 8: >> - block #NMI handling during microcode loading (Patch 16) >> - Don't assume that all CPUs in the system have loaded a same ucode. >>

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 00/15] improve late microcode loading

2019-08-22 Thread Sergey Dyasli
Hi Chao, On 19/08/2019 02:25, Chao Gao wrote: > Previous change log: > Changes in version 8: > - block #NMI handling during microcode loading (Patch 16) > - Don't assume that all CPUs in the system have loaded a same ucode. > So when parsing a blob, we attempt to save a patch as long as it matc

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 00/15] improve late microcode loading

2019-08-18 Thread Chao Gao
Changes in version 9: - add Jan's Reviewed-by - rendevzous threads in NMI handler to disable NMI. Note that NMI can be served as usual on threads that are chosen to initiate ucode loading on each core. - avoid unnecessary memory allocation or copy when creating a microcode patch (patch 12) -