linux-kernel - Re: [ 36/44] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface

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Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:30:46 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [ 36/44] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading
 interface

On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:26:54PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > I believe the patch bellow, which was required on 3.2, will also be
> > necessary.
> 
> Will it be necessary to apply this before this patch goes in the series,
> or after it?

Applying after fixes a build error.  Applying before might avoid the build
error altogether (error happens when #undef CONFIG_SMP), AFAIK.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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