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Message-ID: <20180410154751.GA11614@kroah.com> References: <1523039426-3938-1-git-send-email-ashok.raj@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1523039426-3938-1-git-send-email-ashok.raj@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox: INBOX X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 11:30:14AM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote: > Hi Greg > > Here is a series that addresses microcode loading stability issues post > Spectre. All of them are simply cherry-picked and the patches themselves > have the upstream commit ID's. > > I checked this for Intel platforms and thanks to Boris for checking > on AMD platforms. Thanks, now queued up. > I'm still working on a 4.9 backport, will send those once i get them to > work. stop_machine differences seem big enough that i might choose a > different approach for the 4.9 backport. Ick, be careful, it's best to stick with almost identical code where ever possible. Otherwise you are almost always guaranteed to break something :( greg k-h