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<title>x86/boot: Move EISA setup to a separate file</title>
<updated>2018-12-16T22:09:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-28T06:47:20+00:00</published>
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commit f7eaf6e00fd581043bb540dfe865f1d81769b189 upstream.

EISA has absolutely nothing to do with traps, so move it out of traps.c
into its own eisa.c file.

Furthermore, the EISA bus detection does not need to run during
very early boot, it's good enough to run it before the EISA bus
and drivers are initialized.

I.e. instead of calling it from the very early trap_init() code,
make it a subsys_initcall().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170828064956.515322409@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit f7eaf6e00fd581043bb540dfe865f1d81769b189 upstream.

EISA has absolutely nothing to do with traps, so move it out of traps.c
into its own eisa.c file.

Furthermore, the EISA bus detection does not need to run during
very early boot, it's good enough to run it before the EISA bus
and drivers are initialized.

I.e. instead of calling it from the very early trap_init() code,
make it a subsys_initcall().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170828064956.515322409@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2014-06-09T23:39:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-09T23:39:15+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Lots of tweaks, small fixes, optimizations, and some helper functions
  to help out the rest of the kernel to ease their use of trace events.

  The big change for this release is the allowing of other tracers, such
  as the latency tracers, to be used in the trace instances and allow
  for function or function graph tracing to be in the top level
  simultaneously"

* tag 'trace-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  tracing: Fix memory leak on instance deletion
  tracing: Fix leak of ring buffer data when new instances creation fails
  tracing/kprobes: Avoid self tests if tracing is disabled on boot up
  tracing: Return error if ftrace_trace_arrays list is empty
  tracing: Only calculate stats of tracepoint benchmarks for 2^32 times
  tracing: Convert stddev into u64 in tracepoint benchmark
  tracing: Introduce saved_cmdlines_size file
  tracing: Add __get_dynamic_array_len() macro for trace events
  tracing: Remove unused variable in trace_benchmark
  tracing: Eliminate double free on failure of allocation on boot up
  ftrace/x86: Call text_ip_addr() instead of the duplicated code
  tracing: Print max callstack on stacktrace bug
  tracing: Move locking of trace_cmdline_lock into start/stop seq calls
  tracing: Try again for saved cmdline if failed due to locking
  tracing: Have saved_cmdlines use the seq_read infrastructure
  tracing: Add tracepoint benchmark tracepoint
  tracing: Print nasty banner when trace_printk() is in use
  tracing: Add funcgraph_tail option to print function name after closing braces
  tracing: Eliminate duplicate TRACE_GRAPH_PRINT_xx defines
  tracing: Add __bitmask() macro to trace events to cpumasks and other bitmasks
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Lots of tweaks, small fixes, optimizations, and some helper functions
  to help out the rest of the kernel to ease their use of trace events.

  The big change for this release is the allowing of other tracers, such
  as the latency tracers, to be used in the trace instances and allow
  for function or function graph tracing to be in the top level
  simultaneously"

* tag 'trace-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  tracing: Fix memory leak on instance deletion
  tracing: Fix leak of ring buffer data when new instances creation fails
  tracing/kprobes: Avoid self tests if tracing is disabled on boot up
  tracing: Return error if ftrace_trace_arrays list is empty
  tracing: Only calculate stats of tracepoint benchmarks for 2^32 times
  tracing: Convert stddev into u64 in tracepoint benchmark
  tracing: Introduce saved_cmdlines_size file
  tracing: Add __get_dynamic_array_len() macro for trace events
  tracing: Remove unused variable in trace_benchmark
  tracing: Eliminate double free on failure of allocation on boot up
  ftrace/x86: Call text_ip_addr() instead of the duplicated code
  tracing: Print max callstack on stacktrace bug
  tracing: Move locking of trace_cmdline_lock into start/stop seq calls
  tracing: Try again for saved cmdline if failed due to locking
  tracing: Have saved_cmdlines use the seq_read infrastructure
  tracing: Add tracepoint benchmark tracepoint
  tracing: Print nasty banner when trace_printk() is in use
  tracing: Add funcgraph_tail option to print function name after closing braces
  tracing: Eliminate duplicate TRACE_GRAPH_PRINT_xx defines
  tracing: Add __bitmask() macro to trace events to cpumasks and other bitmasks
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace/x86: Move the mcount/fentry code out of entry_64.S</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T15:37:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-08T19:21:52+00:00</published>
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As the mcount code gets more complex, it really does not belong
in the entry.S file. By moving it into its own file "mcount.S"
keeps things a bit cleaner.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140508152152.2130e8cf@gandalf.local.home

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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As the mcount code gets more complex, it really does not belong
in the entry.S file. By moving it into its own file "mcount.S"
keeps things a bit cleaner.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140508152152.2130e8cf@gandalf.local.home

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, espfix: Make espfix64 a Kconfig option, fix UML</title>
<updated>2014-05-04T17:00:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-04T17:00:49+00:00</published>
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Make espfix64 a hidden Kconfig option.  This fixes the x86-64 UML
build which had broken due to the non-existence of init_espfix_bsp()
in UML: since UML uses its own Kconfig, this option does not appear in
the UML build.

This also makes it possible to make support for 16-bit segments a
configuration option, for the people who want to minimize the size of
the kernel.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
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Make espfix64 a hidden Kconfig option.  This fixes the x86-64 UML
build which had broken due to the non-existence of init_espfix_bsp()
in UML: since UML uses its own Kconfig, this option does not appear in
the UML build.

This also makes it possible to make support for 16-bit segments a
configuration option, for the people who want to minimize the size of
the kernel.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack</title>
<updated>2014-04-30T21:14:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-29T23:46:09+00:00</published>
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The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only
restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer.  This
causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state
to user space.  We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for
the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which
is not available in 64-bit mode.

In checkin:

    b3b42ac2cbae x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels

we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with
the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no
V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like
running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work.

This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which
is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart.  When we detect that the return SS is
on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the
relevant alias to return to userspace.  The ministacks are mapped
readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST
vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF
handler.

(Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe
in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.)

Special thanks to:

- Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots
  and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the
  suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF.
- Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing.
- Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments.

Reported-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Lutomriski &lt;amluto@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dirk Hohndel &lt;dirk@hohndel.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com&gt;
Cc: comex &lt;comexk@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum &lt;heukelum@fastmail.fm&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # consider after upstream merge
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The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only
restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer.  This
causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state
to user space.  We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for
the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which
is not available in 64-bit mode.

In checkin:

    b3b42ac2cbae x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels

we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with
the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no
V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like
running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work.

This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which
is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart.  When we detect that the return SS is
on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the
relevant alias to return to userspace.  The ministacks are mapped
readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST
vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF
handler.

(Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe
in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.)

Special thanks to:

- Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots
  and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the
  suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF.
- Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing.
- Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments.

Reported-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Lutomriski &lt;amluto@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dirk Hohndel &lt;dirk@hohndel.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com&gt;
Cc: comex &lt;comexk@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum &lt;heukelum@fastmail.fm&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # consider after upstream merge
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, vdso: Make vsyscall_gtod_data handling x86 generic</title>
<updated>2014-03-18T19:51:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefani Seibold</name>
<email>stefani@seibold.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-17T22:22:01+00:00</published>
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This patch move the vsyscall_gtod_data handling out of vsyscall_64.c
into an additonal file vsyscall_gtod.c to make the functionality
available for x86 32 bit kernel.

It also adds a new vsyscall_32.c which setup the VVAR page.

Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold &lt;stefani@seibold.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395094933-14252-2-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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This patch move the vsyscall_gtod_data handling out of vsyscall_64.c
into an additonal file vsyscall_gtod.c to make the functionality
available for x86 32 bit kernel.

It also adds a new vsyscall_32.c which setup the VVAR page.

Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold &lt;stefani@seibold.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395094933-14252-2-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-01-20T20:09:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-20T20:09:31+00:00</published>
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Pull Intel SoC changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Improved Intel SoC platform support"

* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, tsc, apic: Unbreak static (MSR) calibration when CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=n
  x86, tsc: Add static (MSR) TSC calibration on Intel Atom SoCs
  arch: x86: New MailBox support driver for Intel SOC's
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Pull Intel SoC changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Improved Intel SoC platform support"

* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, tsc, apic: Unbreak static (MSR) calibration when CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=n
  x86, tsc: Add static (MSR) TSC calibration on Intel Atom SoCs
  arch: x86: New MailBox support driver for Intel SOC's
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-01-20T20:07:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-20T20:07:54+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 microcode loader updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "There are two main changes in this tree:

   - AMD microcode early loading fixes
   - some microcode loader source files reorganization"

* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, microcode: Move to a proper location
  x86, microcode, AMD: Fix early ucode loading
  x86, microcode: Share native MSR accessing variants
  x86, ramdisk: Export relocated ramdisk VA
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Pull x86 microcode loader updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "There are two main changes in this tree:

   - AMD microcode early loading fixes
   - some microcode loader source files reorganization"

* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, microcode: Move to a proper location
  x86, microcode, AMD: Fix early ucode loading
  x86, microcode: Share native MSR accessing variants
  x86, ramdisk: Export relocated ramdisk VA
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, tsc: Add static (MSR) TSC calibration on Intel Atom SoCs</title>
<updated>2014-01-16T06:28:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bin Gao</name>
<email>bin.gao@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-21T16:16:33+00:00</published>
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On SoCs that have the calibration MSRs available, either there is no
PIT, HPET or PMTIMER to calibrate against, or the PIT/HPET/PMTIMER is
driven from the same clock as the TSC, so calibration is redundant and
just slows down the boot.

TSC rate is caculated by this formula:
&lt;maximum core-clock to bus-clock ratio&gt; * &lt;maximum resolved frequency&gt;
The ratio and the resolved frequency ID can be obtained from MSR.
See Intel 64 and IA-32 System Programming Guid section 16.12 and 30.11.5
for details.

Signed-off-by: Bin Gao &lt;bin.gao@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rgm7xmg7k6qnjlw3ynkcjsmh@git.kernel.org
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On SoCs that have the calibration MSRs available, either there is no
PIT, HPET or PMTIMER to calibrate against, or the PIT/HPET/PMTIMER is
driven from the same clock as the TSC, so calibration is redundant and
just slows down the boot.

TSC rate is caculated by this formula:
&lt;maximum core-clock to bus-clock ratio&gt; * &lt;maximum resolved frequency&gt;
The ratio and the resolved frequency ID can be obtained from MSR.
See Intel 64 and IA-32 System Programming Guid section 16.12 and 30.11.5
for details.

Signed-off-by: Bin Gao &lt;bin.gao@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rgm7xmg7k6qnjlw3ynkcjsmh@git.kernel.org
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<title>x86, microcode: Move to a proper location</title>
<updated>2014-01-13T19:00:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
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<published>2013-12-01T17:09:58+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan &lt;Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com&gt;
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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 &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan &lt;Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com&gt;
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