Pavel Machek wrote:

>Hi!
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>>i386 arch cleanup.  Introduce the serialize macro to serialize processor state.
>>Why the microcode update needs it I am not quite sure, since wrmsr() is already
>>a serializing instruction, but it is a microcode update, so I will keep the
>>semantic the same, since this could be a timing workaround.  As far as I can
>>tell, this has always been there since the original microcode update
>>source.
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>Can we get better name, like "serialize_cpu()"?
>									Pavel
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No objections to changing the name by me.  In fact, looks like serialize 
was a rather poor choice in the context of the microcode update source, 
since there are already references to lock based serialization right 
around the same code.  Updated comments as well.

Zach