The fix further reduces the impact for the BDW model which has to launch
a machine reset in order to run microcode update in BIOS. This point is
important for some vendors without the concern about machine reboot in
order to fix up Spectre v2.
Jia Zhang (2):
x86/intel: introduce platform_id
x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading with platform id and LLC
check
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 7 +++++++
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
