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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Subject: [MODERATED] Re: [patch 3/8] [PATCH v1.3.1 3/7] Linux Patch 3
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 04:51:37PM -0400, speck for Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wro=
te:
> That won't work. The reason is that check_bugs first calls
> identify_boot_cpu() which calls identify_cpu() which calls
> this_cpu->init. Once identify_boot_cpu() is done _then_ it walks
> through the spectre_v2_select_mitigation() and ssb_select_mitigation().

So call md_select_mitigation() before identify_boot_cpu() in
check_bugs().

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