Re: [PATCH v2 08/14] x86/fault: Skip erratum #93 workaround on new CPUs

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:06:02PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 6:33 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Erratum #93 applies to the first generation of AMD K8 CPUs.  Skip the
> > workaround on newer CPUs.
> 
> Whoops, this breaks the !CPU_SUP_AMD build.  It needs a fixup like this:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/commit/?h=x86/fault&id=06772a3b6918bf6d6d0778946149b7d56ae30d80
> 
> Boris, do you want a v3?

Do we even want to apply patch 8 at all? This has always ran on K8 NPT
CPUs too and those are pretty much obsolete by now so I'm thinking,
leave sleeping dogs lie...?

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