x86/microcode: Document the whole late loading problem
authorAshok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:38:21 +0000 (22:38 +0000)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:57:53 +0000 (15:57 +0200)
commit3ecf671f1d354f40228e407ab350abd41034410b
tree3f2c80458e04291f28911c5e503f342cb72aeee2
parent568035b01cfb107af8d2e4bd2fb9aea22cf5b868
x86/microcode: Document the whole late loading problem

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  d23d33ea0fcd ("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
Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
Documentation/x86/microcode.rst