Re: [PATCH 7/7] x86/microcode: Recheck IBRS features on microcode reload

Greg KH
2018-01-05T13:47:12Z

On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 02:37:17PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 02:32:17PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > Does it really matter? Rescanning everything can't hurt here, and it
> > shouldn't be noticable in any boot time chart. I feel like arguing
> > about tiny stuff like this takes away from the obvious other problems
> > this whole patch series had :(
>
> It does because others will come and copy this and then we're stuck
> with cleaning up the mess. The whole CPUID parsing needs a much desired
> cleanup but there's other more pressing shit going on..

Ok, fair enough, and Tim already said he fixed this up in his series,
sorry for the noise.

greg k-h