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For bug workarounds or checks, it is useful to check for specific microcode revisions. Add a new generic function to match the CPU with stepping. Add the other function to check the min microcode revisions for the matched CPU. A new table format is introduced to facilitate the quirk to fill the related information. This does not change the existing x86_cpu_id because it's an ABI shared with modules, and also has quite different requirements, as in no wildcards, but everything has to be matched exactly. Originally-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: eranian@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1549319013-4522-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.