Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 10/15] microcode: split out apply_microcode() from cpu_request_microcode()

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 22.08.2019 15:59, Roger Pau Monné  wrote:
> Seeing how this works I'm not sure what's the best option here. As
> updating will be attempted on other CPUs, I'm not sure if it's OK to
> return an error if the update succeed on some CPUs but failed on
> others.

The overall result of a partially successful update should be an
error - mismatched ucode may, after all, be more of a problem
than outdated ucode.

Jan

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel