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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:07:55AM +0200, speck for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Similarly, we don't reevaluate mitigation selection and command line
> options after early boot, so just special casing it for virtualization does
> not make much sense to me.

Yes, we do:

void microcode_check(void)

	...

	pr_warn("x86/CPU: CPU features have changed after loading microcode, but mig=
ht not take effect.\n");
        pr_warn("x86/CPU: Please consider either early loading through initrd=
/built-in or a potential BIOS update.\n");

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imend=C3=B6rffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HR=
B 21284 (AG N=C3=BCrnberg)
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