linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h, branch v4.4.7

x86/microcode: Untangle from BLK_DEV_INITRD

2016-04-12T16:08:32+00:00

commit 5f9c01aa7c49a2d74474d6d879a797b8badf29e6 upstream.

Thomas Voegtle reported that doing oldconfig with a .config which has
CONFIG_MICROCODE enabled but BLK_DEV_INITRD disabled prevents the
microcode loading mechanism from being built.

So untangle it from the BLK_DEV_INITRD dependency so that oldconfig
doesn't turn it off and add an explanatory text to its Kconfig help what
the supported methods for supplying microcode are.

Reported-by: Thomas Voegtle 
Tested-by: Thomas Voegtle 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454499225-21544-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/microcode: Remove modularization leftovers

2015-10-21T09:22:12+00:00

Remove the remaining module functionality leftovers. Make
"dis_ucode_ldr" an early_param and make it static again. Drop
module aliases, autoloading table, description, etc.

Bump version number, while at it.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Dave Jones 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Len Brown 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445334889-300-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/microcode: Merge the early microcode loader

2015-10-21T09:22:12+00:00

Merge the early loader functionality into the driver proper. The
diff is huge but logically, it is simply moving code from the
_early.c files into the main driver.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Dave Jones 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Len Brown 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445334889-300-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/microcode: Unmodularize the microcode driver

2015-10-21T09:22:11+00:00

Make CONFIG_MICROCODE a bool. It was practically a bool already anyway,
since early loader was forcing it to =y.

Regardless, there's no real reason to have something be a module which
gets built-in on the majority of installations out there. And its not
like there's noticeable change in functionality - we still can load late
microcode - just the module glue disappears.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Dave Jones 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Len Brown 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445334889-300-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/microcode: Parse built-in microcode early

2015-05-06T09:24:53+00:00

Apparently, people do build microcode into the kernel image, i.e.
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y.

Make that work in the early loader which is where microcode should be
preferably loaded anyway.

Note that you need to specify the microcode filename with the path
relative to the toplevel firmware directory (the same like the late
loading method) in CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=y so that early loader can
find it.

I.e., something like this (Intel variant):

  CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y
  CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="intel-ucode/06-3a-09"
  CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware/"

While at it, add me to the loader copyright boilerplate.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Daniel J Blueman 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/microcode: Consolidate family,model, ... code

2015-03-02T19:32:07+00:00

... to the header. Split the family acquiring function into a
main one, doing CPUID and a helper which computes the extended
family and is used in multiple places. Get rid of the locally-grown
get_x86_{family,model}().

While at it, rename local variables to something more descriptive and
vertically align assignments for better readability.

There should be no functionality change resulting from this patch.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov

x86, microcode: Reload microcode on resume

2014-12-06T12:03:03+00:00

Normally, we do reapply microcode on resume. However, in the cases where
that microcode comes from the early loader and the late loader hasn't
been utilized yet, there's no easy way for us to go and apply the patch
applied during boot by the early loader.

Thus, reuse the patch stashed by the early loader for the BSP.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov

x86, microcode: Add a disable chicken bit

2014-05-21T03:21:27+00:00

Add a cmdline param which disables the microcode loader. This is useful
mostly in debugging situations where we want to turn off microcode
loading, both early from the initrd and late, as a means to be able to
rule out its influence on the machine.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400525957-11525-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86, microcode: Share native MSR accessing variants

2014-01-13T18:57:27+00:00

We want to use those in AMD's early loading path too. Also, add a
native_wrmsrl variant.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Tested-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan

x86: delete __cpuinit usage from all x86 files

2013-07-14T23:36:56+00:00

The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since
notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c)
are flagged as __cpuinit  -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from
arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings.
As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit
content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid
of these warnings.  In any case, they are temporary and harmless.

This removes all the arch/x86 uses of the __cpuinit macros from
all C files.  x86 only had the one __CPUINIT used in assembly files,
and it wasn't paired off with a .previous or a __FINIT, so we can
delete it directly w/o any corresponding additional change there.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker