From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46888 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751272AbeDJPr6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:47:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:47:51 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Ashok Raj Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, bp@suse.de, thomas.lendacky@amd.com, arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com, asit.k.mallick@intel.com Subject: Re: [4.15 & 4.14 stable 00/12] Series to update microcode loading. 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> Sender: stable-owner@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