linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86, intel: Use cpu

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Date:	Wed, 25 May 2011 08:59:18 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86, intel: Use cpu_update for Atom errata check

* Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:

> From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Now that the cpu update level is available the Atom PSE errata
> check can use it directly without reading the MSR again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c |   15 ++++-----------

Ok, it's nice that you have split this one out.

Please also split out the MCE printk change you did in the first patch - even 
if it's a oneliner we want the first patch to only include changes focused to 
the primary purpose alone: the introduction of x86_cpu::microcode_version.

Also, please split the first patch into two other parts: a first one that 
factors out the Intel microcode-version MSR function into a separate function, 
and the second patch that introduces the x86_cpu::microcode_version field and 
fills it in in the CPU detection code and keeps it updated in the microcode 
driver.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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