On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2018-02-10 at 23:39 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c > > @@ -123,8 +123,6 @@ static const struct sku_microcode > > spectre_bad_microcodes[] = { > > { INTEL_FAM6_KABYLAKE_MOBILE, 0x09, 0x84 }, > > { INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X, 0x03, 0x0100013e }, > > { INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X, 0x04, 0x0200003c }, > > - { INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_MOBILE, 0x03, 0xc2 }, > > - { INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_DESKTOP, 0x03, 0xc2 }, > > { INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_CORE, 0x04, 0x28 }, > > { INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_GT3E, 0x01, 0x1b }, > > { INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_XEON_D, 0x02, 0x14 }, > > Arjan points out that the SKYLAKE_DESKTOP one there is premature. There > are *two* rows in Intel's table which match that CPUID (506E3). > > Only *one* of them ("Skylake H/S") has cleared the 0xC2 microcode for > use, while the "Skylake E3" line still doesn't approve it. (But doesn't > explicitly list it in the "STOP deploying" column any more either, > which it probably should, and might have helped me notice.) > > Ingo, Thomas: do you want to drop this patch which is already in > tip/x86/pti and have a new version with the SKYLAKE_DESKTOP no longer > removed? Or shall I send an incremental patch to add it back? Delta patch please.