Bug#736892: microcode only updated on 2 out of 4 CPUs

2014-01-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:57:39 -0500 (EST), Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Some processors update per core, not per hardware thread (hardware threads > > show up as separate "cpus" in Linux x86/x86-64). When a hardware thread is > > updated on the

Bug#736892: microcode only updated on 2 out of 4 CPUs

2014-01-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:57:39 -0500 (EST), Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Some processors update per core, not per hardware thread (hardware threads > show up as separate "cpus" in Linux x86/x86-64). When a hardware thread is > updated on these processors, it actually updates all hardware

Bug#736892: microcode only updated on 2 out of 4 CPUs

2014-01-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
retitle 736892 kernel: does not log when it skips an already up-do-date cpu severity 736892 minor tags 736892 upstream wontfix thanks On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 06:23:49 -0500 (EST), Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Could you please send to the bug repor

Bug#736892: microcode only updated on 2 out of 4 CPUs

2014-01-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 06:23:49 -0500 (EST), Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Could you please send to the bug report the contents of /proc/cpuinfo on the > kernel that is showing problems? That should help diagnosing the issue. I will include lines from both /var/log/dmesg and /proc/cpuinfo

Bug#736892: microcode only updated on 2 out of 4 CPUs

2014-01-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Stephen Powell wrote: > My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-SP2, PCB revision 5.0, > BIOS version F3. My processor is an AMD FX-4300, which is > a quad-core chip. On newer kernels, only two out of the four > CPUs get their microcode upgraded. (It always seems to be > CPU0

Bug#736892: microcode only updated on 2 out of 4 CPUs

2014-01-27 Thread Stephen Powell
Package: amd64-microcode Version: 2.20131007.1+really20130710.1 Severity: normal Debian stock kernel linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 version 3.10.11-1 seems to be the last "production" kernel that works correctly. (I didn't try the "rc" ones.) The next kernel after that, linux-image-3.11-1-amd64 version