On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 04:56:01PM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 04:31:31PM +0800, Chao Gao wrote:
>> From: Sergey Dyasli <sergey.dya...@citrix.com>
>> 
>> Currently cpu_sig struct is not updated during boot when either:
>> 
>>     1. ucode_scan is set to false (e.g. no "ucode=scan" in cmdline)
>>     2. initrd does not contain a microcode blob
>> 
>> These will result in cpu_sig.rev being 0 which affects APIC's
>> check_deadline_errata() and retpoline_safe() functions.
>> 
>> Fix this by getting ucode revision early during boot and SMP bring up.
>> While at it.
>
>I don't understand the last "While at it" sentence. Can it be
>removed?

Yes.

>
>Is this an issue with current code? If so this could be merged ahead of
>the rest of the series, and should likely be patch 1.
>
>OTOH if the issue this patch is fixing is introduced by this series
>please merge the fix with the respective patch that introduced the
>bug.

It is the former. Will send it separately.
Really appreciate your other comments.

Thanks
Chao

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