Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755189AbZLCEn7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 23:43:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754871AbZLCEn7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 23:43:59 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:44662 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754467AbZLCEn6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 23:43:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:46:09 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Michael Breuer Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Bug (minor): microcode_intel.c applies updates to hyperthreaded cores Message-ID: <20091202204609.555313d6@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <4B173FE0.7030302@majjas.com> References: <4B17393B.7000304@majjas.com> <20091202202012.0c7b6768@infradead.org> <4B173FE0.7030302@majjas.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 673 Lines: 20 On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:34:40 -0500 Michael Breuer wrote: > Fair point - guess it's a different bug. Looks like the mechanism > sets up the requests first for all cpus, then loads them. > apply_microcode doesn't recheck. > ok that's likely the real bug ... -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/