Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:52:45 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86, microcode fixes for 3.2 |
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On 03/26/2012 01:48 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:27:23PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> I keep wondering if we couldn't have the early-static trap handlers be >> aware of exception tables, too; they wouldn't have to worry about >> modules and so it would be reasonably easy. > > Well, we talked about this recently and then we decided we needed the > extable-sorting-at-build-time patches before we make those static trap > handlers aware of extables. What happened to those patches, btw? See > thread at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=132196692827070 >
Hm... I hope that didn't stall out because of me... the amount of overload I have been under lately is a bit scary.
I was going to dredge out the perfect hash stuff that I had, but the sorting stuff could be done without that.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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