Re: Bug (minor): microcode_intel.c applies updates to hyperthreadedcores

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Wed Dec 02 2009 - 23:44:15 EST


On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:34:40 -0500
Michael Breuer <mbreuer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Fair point - guess it's a different bug. Looks like the mechanism
> sets up the requests first for all cpus, then loads them.
> apply_microcode doesn't recheck.
>

ok that's likely the real bug ...


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