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Ashok Raj 3ecf671f1d x86/microcode: Document the whole late loading problem
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  d23d33ea0f ("x86/microcode: Taint and warn on late loading")

started tainting the kernel after microcode late loading.

There is some history behind why x86 microcode started doing the late
loading stop_machine() rendezvous. Document the whole situation.

No functional changes.

  [ bp: Fix typos, heavily massage. ]

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220813223825.3164861-2-ashok.raj@intel.com
2022-08-18 15:57:53 +02:00
Changbin Du 3d07bc393f Documentation: x86: convert microcode.txt to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:11 -06:00