On Thursday, October 13, 2011, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 09:12:16PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > > Given that the microcode update hotplug optimization is going upstream, > > (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/13/258), we know that whether we want to call > > it a bugfix or optimization, either way it *is* going to fix this bug. > > And this current patchset's mutual exclusion approach was also aimed at fixing > > the same bug since at the time it was written, discussion was still going on > > about which solution would be better. > > I hate to sound like a broken recorder but the above patch isn't > strictly correct for hot-swap cases, right? Let's please add > revalidation before pushing that upstream. Rafael, did you already > take that patch? No, I didn't, but I'm not sure about the x86 maintainers. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html