From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86, intel: Output microcode revision v2
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:52:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110525195251.GA31268@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306351948-23382-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org>
* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> I got a request to make it easier to determine the microcode update level
> on Intel CPUs. This patch adds a new "cpu update" field to /proc/cpuinfo,
> which I added at the end to minimize impact on parsers.
>
> The update level is also outputed on fatal machine checks together
> with the other CPUID model information.
>
> I removed the respective code from the microcode update driver, it
> just reads the field from cpu_data. Also when the microcode is updated
> it fills in the new values too.
>
> I had to add a memory barrier to native_cpuid to prevent it being
> optimized away when the result is not used.
>
> This turns out to clean up further code which already got this
> information manually. This is done in followon patches.
>
> v2: Lots of updates based on feedback.
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 5 ++++-
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 5 +++--
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c | 3 ++-
> arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c | 14 +++++---------
> 5 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
You ignored the majority of the review suggestions i gave you in the
previous thread, and you know that i won't apply your patches without
you addressing all feedback.
So why did you send this incomplete series?
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-25 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-25 19:32 Andi Kleen
2011-05-25 19:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86, intel: Use cpu_update for Atom errata check Andi Kleen
2011-05-26 7:39 ` Jean Delvare
2011-05-25 19:32 ` [PATCH 3/3] coretemp: Get microcode revision from cpu_data v2 Andi Kleen
2011-05-25 20:53 ` Jean Delvare
2011-05-26 2:08 ` Yu, Fenghua
2011-05-26 7:49 ` Jean Delvare
2011-05-25 19:52 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-05-25 20:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86, intel: Output microcode revision v2 Andi Kleen
2011-05-25 21:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-05-25 23:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2011-05-26 7:33 ` Jean Delvare
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