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Message-ID: <20120326084810.GA31480@aftab>
Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:48:10 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86, microcode fixes for 3.2

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:27:23PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I keep wondering if we couldn't have the early-static trap handlers be
> aware of exception tables, too; they wouldn't have to worry about
> modules and so it would be reasonably easy.

Well, we talked about this recently and then we decided we needed the
extable-sorting-at-build-time patches before we make those static trap
handlers aware of extables. What happened to those patches, btw? See
thread at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=132196692827070

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