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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: add is_f00f_bug helper to fault_32|64.c
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:00:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73d4rzbudl.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1200610456.5724.41.camel@brick> (Harvey Harrison's message of "Thu\, 17 Jan 2008 14\:54\:16 -0800")

Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> writes:

> Further towards unifying these files, add another helper
> in same spirit as is_errata93.

The better way to handle this would be to move all these workarounds
into notifiers that only get registered on the CPUs that actually have
the bugs.

There is right now no die notifier in the right place for this,
but you could just add one there. This is no performance critical
place.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-18  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-17 22:54 [PATCH 1/2] x86: add is_f00f_bug helper to fault_32|64.c Harvey Harrison
2008-01-18  5:00 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-01-18  9:09   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-18 13:13     ` Andi Kleen

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