Re: [PATCH v6 8/8] x86/microcode/AMD: Don't scan past the CPU equivalence table data
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Jun 18 2018 - 14:30:24 EST
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 08:11:53PM +0200, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> The equivalence table size can be computed in the late loader - there is
> no problem there.
>
> However, this computed size needs to be passed somehow to functions
> scanning the equivalence table.
Ok, then let's make a compromise with a proper global descriptor which
gets passed around:
static struct equiv_cpu_table {
struct equiv_cpu_entry *table;
unsigned int size;
} *equiv_table;
But make that conversion in a prepatch pls.
Thx.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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