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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading with platform id and LLC check
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Yes I'm wrong with platform id so drop it.

Jia

在 2018/1/15 下午6:10, Borislav Petkov 写道:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 01:43:23PM +0800, Jia Zhang wrote:
>> The commit b94b73733171
>> ("x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading with a revision check")
>> reduces the impact of erratum BDF90 for Broadwell process model. Now,
>> the impact can be reduced further through adding the checks for
>> platform id and the size of LLC per core.
>>
>> This fix is useful to reduce the impact for microcode update launched
>> by BIOS with a must machine reset.
>>
>> For more details, see erratum BDF90 in document #334165 (Intel Xeon
>> Processor E7-8800/4800 v4 Product Family Specification Update) from
>> September 2017.
>
> You must be looking at something NDA or so but this:
>
> https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/xeon-e7-v4-spec-update.pdf
>
> doesn't have none of that
>
>> + llc_size_per_core(c) > 2621440 &&
>> + c->platform_id == 0xef &&
>
> fun.
>

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