From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
CC:     "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        "Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
        "Schofield, Alison" <alison.schofield@intel.com>,
        "Chatre, Reinette" <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
        "Stefan Talpalaru" <stefantalpalaru@yahoo.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
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        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
        Peter Zilstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        "Lutomirski, Andy" <luto@kernel.org>,
        "andrew.cooper3@citrix.com" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
        "Ostrovsky, Boris" <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
        Martin Pohlack <mpohlack@amazon.de>
Subject: RE: [Patch v3 Part2 3/9] x86/microcode/intel: Fix collect_cpu_info()
 to reflect current microcode
Thread-Topic: [Patch v3 Part2 3/9] x86/microcode/intel: Fix collect_cpu_info()
 to reflect current microcode
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Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2023 20:49:52 +0000
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