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    x86 microcode: revert some work_on_cpu · 6f66cbc6
    Hugh Dickins authored
    Revert part of af5c820a
    
     ("x86: cpumask:
    use work_on_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c")
    
    That change is causing only one Intel CPU's microcode to be updated e.g.
    microcode: CPU3 updated from revision 0x9 to 0x17, date = 2005-04-22
    where before it announced that also for CPU0 and CPU1 and CPU2.
    
    We cannot use work_on_cpu() in the CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE code,
    because Intel's request_microcode_user() involves a copy_from_user() from
    /sbin/microcode_ctl, which therefore needs to be on that CPU at the time.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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