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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] paravirt: rename paravirt_enabled to
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On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 03:45:21PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> So it looks like we can just simply revert a18a0f6850 because the very next
> patch to microcode code (fbae4ba8c4a) makes the original problem (of using
> __pa_nodebug, which we shouldn't use on PV) go away: we don't call
> load_ucode_ap from resume path anymore.

Even better.

Care to cut a proper patch explaining why we don't need the
paravirt_enabled() check anymore, and prep it ontop of

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp.git/log/?h=tip-microcode

?

I'll queue it for 4.6.

Thanks!

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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