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 <bp@suse.de>
Paravirtual guests are not expected to load microcode into processors
and therefore it is not necessary to initialize microcode loading
logic.
In fact, under certain circumstances initializing this logic may cause
the guest to crash. Specifically, 32-bit kernels use __pa_nodebug()
macro which does not work in Xen (the code path that leads to this macro
happens during resume when we call mc_bp_resume()->load_ucode_ap()
->check_loader_disabled_ap())
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1417469264-31470-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
In the situation when we apply early microcode but do *not* apply late
microcode, we fail to update the BSP's microcode on resume because we
haven't initialized the uci->mc microcode pointer. So, in order to
alleviate that, we go and dig out the stashed microcode patch during
early boot. It is basically the same thing that is done on the APs early
during boot so do that too here.
Tested-by: alex.schnaidt@gmail.com
Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88001
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.9
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141118094657.GA6635@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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 <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400525957-11525-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
We've grown a bunch of microcode loader files all prefixed with
"microcode_". They should be under cpu/ because this is strictly
CPU-related functionality so do that and drop the prefix since they're
in their own directory now which gives that prefix. :)
While at it, drop MICROCODE_INTEL_LIB config item and stash the
functionality under CONFIG_MICROCODE_INTEL as it was its only user.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
