Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:44:09 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] KVM: X86: Allow userspace to define the microcode version |
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On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 07:37:32PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote: > The guest write is ignored as the original kvm implementation before the patch.
That will never work because there's no virtualized microcode loader. Which will be a dumb idea anyway.
Goes to show that dealing with microcode revisions for a guest is the wrong approach.
> Hmm, the apic_check_deadline_errata() example can be referred to.
So that's basically what I'm saying - fix apic_check_deadline_errata() to check whether the kernel runs as a guest.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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