Re: [PATCH REBASED RESEND] x86/cpu: Move early cpu initialization into a separate translation unit

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 06:50:56PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > The magic, which I cut out, will rewrite the "jmp 6f, nops" thing to
> > "jmp %l[y_{yes,no}]" at the alternative patching and we'll loose the
> > dynamic test, pinning the condition forever more.
> 
> Hrm. Memory seems have to tricked me. So yes, it should work then.

Yes, but do verify that it does still. Because depending on how early
you call it, boot_cpu_data.x86_capability might not be populated
properly yet and then the dynamic case is wrong too. So check the order
pls.

> Though I still prefer the two liners fixup of the cpu_init() section
> mismatch thingy for now over the whole code move. Especially since Borislav
> and I have plans to rework that insanity completely once the speculative
> distractions are subsiding.

Hell yeah.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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