From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755275Ab2CZIsQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:48:16 -0400 Received: from s15943758.onlinehome-server.info ([217.160.130.188]:59890 "EHLO mail.x86-64.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753666Ab2CZIsP (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:48:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:48:10 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Borislav Petkov , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "Srivatsa S. Bhat" , LKML , Jan Beulich Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86, microcode fixes for 3.2 Message-ID: <20120326084810.GA31480@aftab> References: <20111128204311.GA2814@aftab> <20111202194658.GF15204@aftab> <20111205092612.GB29641@elte.hu> <20111205151016.GC7834@aftab> <4F6F719B.5020806@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F6F719B.5020806@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Advanced Micro Devices GmbH Einsteinring 24, 85609 Dornach GM: Alberto Bozzo Reg: Dornach, Landkreis Muenchen HRB Nr. 43632 WEEE Registernr: 129 19551