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authorAndreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>2012-01-20 17:44:12 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2012-01-26 12:06:39 +0100
commit5b68edc91cdc972c46f76f85eded7ffddc3ff5c2 (patch)
treefa6919558bbdea9706b4053ae8052d93de8905dc /arch/x86
parent652847aa449cfe364d40018849223f57f31a38e2 (diff)
x86/microcode_amd: Add support for CPU family specific container files
We've decided to provide CPU family specific container files (starting with CPU family 15h). E.g. for family 15h we have to load microcode_amd_fam15h.bin instead of microcode_amd.bin Rationale is that starting with family 15h patch size is larger than 2KB which was hard coded as maximum patch size in various microcode loaders (not just Linux). Container files which include patches larger than 2KB cause different kinds of trouble with such old patch loaders. Thus we have to ensure that the default container file provides only patches with size less than 2KB. Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120120164412.GD24508@alberich.amd.com [ documented the naming convention and tidied the code a bit. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c24
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
index fe86493f3ed1..ac0417be9131 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
@@ -311,13 +311,33 @@ out:
return state;
}
+/*
+ * AMD microcode firmware naming convention, up to family 15h they are in
+ * the legacy file:
+ *
+ * amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin
+ *
+ * This legacy file is always smaller than 2K in size.
+ *
+ * Starting at family 15h they are in family specific firmware files:
+ *
+ * amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam15h.bin
+ * amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam16h.bin
+ * ...
+ *
+ * These might be larger than 2K.
+ */
static enum ucode_state request_microcode_amd(int cpu, struct device *device)
{
- const char *fw_name = "amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin";
+ char fw_name[36] = "amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin";
const struct firmware *fw;
enum ucode_state ret = UCODE_NFOUND;
+ struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(cpu);
+
+ if (c->x86 >= 0x15)
+ snprintf(fw_name, sizeof(fw_name), "amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam%.2xh.bin", c->x86);
- if (request_firmware(&fw, fw_name, device)) {
+ if (request_firmware(&fw, (const char *)fw_name, device)) {
pr_err("failed to load file %s\n", fw_name);
goto out;
}