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| author | Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> | 2011-11-21 23:42:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> | 2011-11-21 23:42:06 +0000 |
| commit | 300e812db26f4aa022e346f5fb9af1af134d98d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 382b45253a704087e8aa0c770bf3fc2ad67d4b02 /arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c | |
| parent | 4420dd2b306f1997232a13462bca0d420be5b1b8 (diff) | |
| parent | cfcfc9eca2bcbd26a8e206baeb005b055dbf8e37 (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v3.2-rc2' into fbdev-next
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c index f9242800bc8..f2d2a664e79 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c @@ -483,7 +483,13 @@ mc_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu) sysfs_remove_group(&sys_dev->kobj, &mc_attr_group); pr_debug("CPU%d removed\n", cpu); break; - case CPU_DEAD: + + /* + * When a CPU goes offline, don't free up or invalidate the copy of + * the microcode in kernel memory, so that we can reuse it when the + * CPU comes back online without unnecessarily requesting the userspace + * for it again. + */ case CPU_UP_CANCELED_FROZEN: /* The CPU refused to come up during a system resume */ microcode_fini_cpu(cpu); |