Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:23:09 -0700 | From | Max Krasnyansky <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/4] x86: AMD microcode patch loading v2 fixes |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've even suggested to consider doing microcode update somewhere >> earlier in start_secondary() (say, right before cpu_idle()). So it'd >> be done as ealry as possible + we don't mess up with cpu-hotplug >> events. > > i have no problems with that approach in principle. Microcode updates > are special and black magic things anyway. >
I still think we should just do the update via schedule_work_on() and be done with it. Maybe in theory it should be done as early as possible but in practice hotplug handler -> workqueue will be soon enough, I think.
Max
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