On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 10:58:10AM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:

This is not needed on the boot CPU, but only on secondary CPUs. When
those are brought up the alternatives have been patches already. The
commit message should probably be more clear about that, I will fix
that.

Hell yeah - you need to talk more in those commit messages sir! See,
we're not in your head... :-)))

And pls put that as a comment over the code - the commit message will
not be that easily accessible in years.

Thx.

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