linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 1/3] x86, intel: Output microcode revision v4

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Date:	Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:12:11 -0700
From:	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/3] x86, intel: Output microcode revision v4

>--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
>+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
>@@ -364,6 +364,15 @@ static void __cpuinit init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
>
>       early_init_intel(c);
>
>+       if (c->x86 >= 6 && !cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_IA64)) {
>+               unsigned lower_word;
>+
>+               wrmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, 0, 0);
>+               /* The CPUID 1 fills in the MSR as documented in the SDM */
>+               cpuid_eax(1);
>+               rdmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, lower_word, c->microcode);
>+       }
>+

The patch initializes c->microcode AFTER it was used in early_init_intel(c) in your patch set [2/3].

Thanks.

-Fenghua
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