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Date:   Wed, 28 Aug 2019 21:16:18 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/microcode: Update late microcode in parallel
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 05:24:07PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> This was a bit too aggressive with changes to arch-specific code, only
> changes to __reload_late() would be needed.

Yeah, it is not that ugly but the moment the microcode engine is not
shared between the SMT threads anymore, this needs to go. And frankly,
if there's nothing else speaking against the current variant, I'd like
to keep it simple.

Thx.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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