From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752617Ab2LKDlp (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:41:45 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48515 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751435Ab2LKDlo (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:41:44 -0500 Message-ID: <50C6AB63.9070008@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:41:23 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yinghai Lu CC: "Yu, Fenghua" , "mingo@kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "hpa@linux.intel.com" , "linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [tip:x86/microcode] x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU References: <1354240068-9821-6-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com> <3E5A0FA7E9CA944F9D5414FEC6C71220470F154E@ORSMSX105.amr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/10/2012 06:39 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > No, you should not copy that several times. > > just pre-allocate some kbytes in BRK, and copy to there one time. > He doesn't copy it several times. He just saves an offset into the initrd blob. -hpa