Re: [PATCH] Fix microcode change for i386

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu Feb 19 2004 - 00:20:51 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:
This patch should fix the i386 compile problem in the microcode driver I caused with
the IA32e updates.

diff -u linux-2.6.3-amd64/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c-o linux-2.6.3-amd64/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c
--- linux-2.6.3-amd64/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c-o 2004-02-19 00:19:32.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.3-amd64/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c 2004-02-19 00:56:41.000000000 +0100
@@ -371,8 +371,8 @@
spin_lock_irqsave(&microcode_update_lock, flags); /* write microcode via MSR 0x79 */
- wrmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_WRITE, (u64)(uci->mc->bits), - (u64)(uci->mc->bits) >> 32);
+ wrmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_WRITE, (u32)(unsigned long)(uci->mc->bits), + (u32)(((unsigned long)uci->mc->bits) >> 32));


You still want to do two 16-bit shifts instead of a single 32-bit shift.

Jeff



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