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

Borislav Petkov
2018-01-05T13:37:24Z

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...

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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