From: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/13] x86/microcode/intel: Get rid of last arg to load_ucode_intel_bsp()
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:21:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150224162104.GD4565@chrystal.uk.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424774232-5981-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de>
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:37:02AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
>
> Allocate it on the helper's _load_ucode_intel_bsp() stack instead and do
> not hand it down.
>
Going further, could you not even make uci a static global variable and
have collect_cpu_info_early() called only _once_ to fill the information
in, then you can remove the uci argument from all the other functions as
well? Just a suggestion anyway.
Quentin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-24 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-24 10:36 [PATCH 00/13] x86/microcode: Intel early loader cleanups Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 10:37 ` [PATCH 01/13] x86/microcode/intel: Check if microcode was found before applying Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 10:37 ` [PATCH 02/13] x86/microcode/intel: Do the mc_saved_src NULL check first Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 16:20 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-02-24 10:37 ` [PATCH 03/13] x86/microcode/intel: Get rid of last arg to load_ucode_intel_bsp() Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 16:21 ` Quentin Casasnovas [this message]
2015-02-24 18:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 10:37 ` [PATCH 04/13] x86/microcode/intel: Simplify load_ucode_intel_bsp() Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 16:21 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-02-24 18:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 10:37 ` [PATCH 05/13] x86/microcode/intel: Make _save_mc() return the updated saved count Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 16:22 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-02-24 10:37 ` [PATCH 06/13] x86/microcode/intel: Sanitize _save_mc() Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 10:37 ` [PATCH 07/13] x86/microcode/intel: Rename update_match_revision() Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 16:23 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-04-10 11:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-10 11:54 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-04-10 12:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 10:37 ` [PATCH 08/13] x86/microcode: Consolidate family,model, ... code Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 16:23 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-02-24 10:37 ` [PATCH 09/13] x86/microcode/intel: Simplify generic_load_microcode_early() Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 10:37 ` [PATCH 10/13] x86/microcode/intel: Move mc arg last in get_matching_{microcode|sig} Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 16:24 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-05-05 9:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 10:37 ` [PATCH 11/13] x86/microcode/intel: Sanitize microcode_pointer() Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 10:37 ` [PATCH 12/13] x86/microcode/intel: Check scan_microcode()'s retval Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 10:37 ` [PATCH 13/13] x86/microcode/intel: Fix printing of microcode blobs in show_saved_mc() Borislav Petkov
2015-02-24 16:24 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-02-24 16:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-25 9:41 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-02-25 17:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-03-03 13:00 ` [tip:x86/microcode] x86/microcode/intel: Fix out of bounds memory access to the extended header tip-bot for Quentin Casasnovas
2015-02-24 16:40 ` [PATCH 00/13] x86/microcode: Intel early loader cleanups Quentin Casasnovas
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