Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:25:53 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86, microcode fixes for 3.2 |
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 07:52:45AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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.
Ok, let me scratch up something in the coming days.
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