linux/arch
Borislav Petkov 06b8534cb7 x86/microcode: Rework microcode loading
Yeah, I know, I know, this is a huuge patch and reviewing it is hard.

Sorry but this is the only way I could think of in which I can rewrite
the microcode patches loading procedure without breaking (knowingly) the
driver.

So maybe this patch is easier to review if one looks at the files after
the patch has been applied instead at the diff. Because then it becomes
pretty obvious:

* The BSP-loading path - load_ucode_bsp() is working independently from
  the AP path now and it doesn't save any pointers or patches anymore -
  it solely parses the builtin or initrd microcode and applies the patch.
  That's it.

This fixes the CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY offset fun more solidly.

* The AP-loading path - load_ucode_ap() then goes and scans
  builtin/initrd *again* for the microcode patches but it caches them this
  time so that we don't have to do that scan on each AP but only once.

This simplifies the code considerably.

Then, when we save the microcode from the initrd/builtin, we go and
add the relevant patches to our own cache. The AMD side did do that
and now the Intel side does it too. So no more pointer copying and
blabla, we save the microcode patches ourselves and are independent from
initrd/builtin.

This whole conversion gives us other benefits like unifying the
initrd parsing into a single function: find_microcode_in_initrd() is
used by both.

The diffstat speaks for itself: 456 insertions(+), 695 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161025095522.11964-12-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-10-25 12:28:59 +02:00
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alpha Merge branch 'gup_flag-cleanups' 2016-10-19 08:39:47 -07:00
arc Merge branch 'work.uaccess' into for-linus 2016-10-14 20:42:44 -04:00
arm arm/arm64: KVM: Map the BSS at HYP 2016-10-21 17:26:24 +01:00
arm64 KVM fixes for v4.9-rc2 2016-10-21 19:09:29 -07:00
avr32 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-10-07 21:38:00 -07:00
blackfin Merge branch 'gup_flag-cleanups' 2016-10-19 08:39:47 -07:00
c6x nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
cris mm: replace access_process_vm() write parameter with gup_flags 2016-10-19 08:31:25 -07:00
frv Merge branch 'work.uaccess2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-11 23:38:39 -07:00
h8300 nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
hexagon nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'gup_flag-cleanups' 2016-10-19 08:39:47 -07:00
m32r mm: replace access_process_vm() write parameter with gup_flags 2016-10-19 08:31:25 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-10-14 14:26:58 -07:00
metag Metag architecture fixes for v4.9-rc1 2016-10-14 11:11:39 -07:00
microblaze Merge branch 'work.uaccess2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-11 23:38:39 -07:00
mips KVM fixes for v4.9-rc2 2016-10-21 19:09:29 -07:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'work.uaccess2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-11 23:38:39 -07:00
nios2 nios2 update for v4.9-rc1 2016-10-10 11:31:19 -07:00
openrisc Merge branch 'work.uaccess2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-11 23:38:39 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'parisc-4.9-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2016-10-11 23:59:07 -07:00
powerpc powerpc fixes for 4.9 #3 2016-10-21 19:13:00 -07:00
s390 KVM fixes for v4.9-rc2 2016-10-21 19:09:29 -07:00
score Merge branch 'gup_flag-cleanups' 2016-10-19 08:39:47 -07:00
sh Minor changes to improve J2 support and match Kconfig expectations of 2016-10-19 11:21:06 -07:00
sparc Merge branch 'gup_flag-cleanups' 2016-10-19 08:39:47 -07:00
tile tile: use simpler API for random address requests 2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
um nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
unicore32 unicore32: use simpler API for random address requests 2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
x86 x86/microcode: Rework microcode loading 2016-10-25 12:28:59 +02:00
xtensa Merge branch 'work.uaccess2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-11 23:38:39 -07:00
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Kconfig This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to 2016-10-15 10:03:15 -07:00