Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Track minimum microcode revision globally v2

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 14:25 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> At CPU hotplug or S3 resume time there is a short race window
> where something might run on the CPUs but before the microcode
> update notifier runs. For the current workarounds that need this
> this is acceptable and shouldn't be a problem. 

I'm not convinced,.. the CPU_ONLINE notifier stuff runs pretty late, by
then its already running normal userspace.

We really should do the ucode update from CPU_STARTING.
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