linux-kernel - Re: Bug (minor): microcode_intel.c applies updates to hyperthreaded cores

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Message-ID: <20091202204609.555313d6@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:46:09 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Michael Breuer <mbreuer@...jas.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug (minor): microcode_intel.c applies updates to hyperthreaded
 cores

On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:34:40 -0500
Michael Breuer <mbreuer@...jas.com> 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 ...


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