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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h, branch linux-4.7.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Fix suspend to RAM with builtin microcode</title>
<updated>2016-08-16T07:34:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-06T15:10:43+00:00</published>
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commit 4b703305d98bf7350d4b2953ee39a3aa2eeb1778 upstream.

Usually, after we have found the proper microcode blob for the current
machine, we stash it away for later use with save_microcode_in_initrd().

However, with builtin microcode which doesn't come from the initrd, we
don't call that function because CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=n and even if
set, we don't have a valid initrd.

In order to fix this, let's make save_microcode_in_initrd() an
fs_initcall which runs before rootfs_initcall() as this was the time it
was called previously through:

 rootfs_initcall(populate_rootfs)
 |-&gt; free_initrd()
     |-&gt; free_initrd_mem()
         |-&gt; save_microcode_in_initrd()

Also, we make it run independently from initrd functionality being
present or not.

And since it is called in the microcode loader only now, we can also
make it static.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jim Bos &lt;jim876@xs4all.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465225850-7352-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 4b703305d98bf7350d4b2953ee39a3aa2eeb1778 upstream.

Usually, after we have found the proper microcode blob for the current
machine, we stash it away for later use with save_microcode_in_initrd().

However, with builtin microcode which doesn't come from the initrd, we
don't call that function because CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=n and even if
set, we don't have a valid initrd.

In order to fix this, let's make save_microcode_in_initrd() an
fs_initcall which runs before rootfs_initcall() as this was the time it
was called previously through:

 rootfs_initcall(populate_rootfs)
 |-&gt; free_initrd()
     |-&gt; free_initrd_mem()
         |-&gt; save_microcode_in_initrd()

Also, we make it run independently from initrd functionality being
present or not.

And since it is called in the microcode loader only now, we can also
make it static.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jim Bos &lt;jim876@xs4all.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465225850-7352-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Untangle from BLK_DEV_INITRD</title>
<updated>2016-02-09T10:41:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-03T11:33:29+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;tv@lio96.de&gt;
Tested-by: Thomas Voegtle &lt;tv@lio96.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.4
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454499225-21544-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
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 &lt;tv@lio96.de&gt;
Tested-by: Thomas Voegtle &lt;tv@lio96.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.4
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454499225-21544-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Unify CPU family, model, stepping calculation</title>
<updated>2015-11-24T08:15:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-23T10:12:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=99f925ce927e4ac313d9af8bd1bf55796e2cdcb1'/>
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<content type='text'>
Add generic functions which calc family, model and stepping from
the CPUID_1.EAX leaf and stick them into the library we have.

Rename those which do call CPUID with the prefix "x86_cpuid" as
suggested by Paolo Bonzini.

No functionality change.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1448273546-2567-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Add generic functions which calc family, model and stepping from
the CPUID_1.EAX leaf and stick them into the library we have.

Rename those which do call CPUID with the prefix "x86_cpuid" as
suggested by Paolo Bonzini.

No functionality change.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1448273546-2567-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Remove modularization leftovers</title>
<updated>2015-10-21T09:22:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-20T09:54:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6b26e1bf66bb4bf1b1b9b4f27d1f324875689cf0'/>
<id>6b26e1bf66bb4bf1b1b9b4f27d1f324875689cf0</id>
<content type='text'>
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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445334889-300-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445334889-300-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Merge the early microcode loader</title>
<updated>2015-10-21T09:22:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-20T09:54:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fe055896c040df571e4ff56fb196d6845130057b'/>
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<content type='text'>
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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445334889-300-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445334889-300-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Unmodularize the microcode driver</title>
<updated>2015-10-21T09:22:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-20T09:54:44+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445334889-300-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445334889-300-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Parse built-in microcode early</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T09:24:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-18T18:28:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=760d765b2bb662be177d4b5b271ced8debc803ac'/>
<id>760d765b2bb662be177d4b5b271ced8debc803ac</id>
<content type='text'>
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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Daniel J Blueman &lt;daniel@numascale.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Daniel J Blueman &lt;daniel@numascale.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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<title>x86/microcode: Consolidate family,model, ... code</title>
<updated>2015-03-02T19:32:07+00:00</updated>
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<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
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<published>2015-02-09T20:42:34+00:00</published>
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... 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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
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... 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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
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<title>x86, microcode: Reload microcode on resume</title>
<updated>2014-12-06T12:03:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-03T16:21:41+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
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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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
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<title>x86, microcode: Add a disable chicken bit</title>
<updated>2014-05-21T03:21:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-19T18:59:17+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400525957-11525-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400525957-11525-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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