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One of the stages in IFS image loading process involves loading individual chunks (test patterns) from test image file to secure memory. Driver issues a WRMSR(MSR_AUTHENTICATE_AND_COPY_CHUNK) operation to do this. This operation can take up to 5 msec, and if an interrupt occurs in between, the AUTH_AND_COPY_CHUNK u-code implementation aborts the operation. Interrupt sources such as NMI or SMI are handled by retrying. Regular interrupts may occur frequently enough to prevent this operation from ever completing. Disable irq on local cpu around the aforementioned WRMSR to allow the operation to complete. Signed-off-by: Jithu Joseph <jithu.joseph@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240412172349.544064-4-jithu.joseph@intel.com Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.