It is not needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221028142638.28498-6-bp@alien8.de

Improve debugging printks and fixup formatting.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221028142638.28498-5-bp@alien8.de

request_microcode_fw() can always request firmware now so drop this
superfluous argument.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221028142638.28498-4-bp@alien8.de

Get rid of all the IPI-sending functions and their wrappers and use
those which are supposed to be called on each CPU.

Thus:

- microcode_init_cpu() gets called on each CPU on init, applying any new
  microcode that the driver might've found on the filesystem.

- mc_cpu_starting() simply tries to apply cached microcode as this is
  the cpuhp starting callback which gets called on CPU resume too.

Even if the driver init function is a late initcall, there is no
filesystem by then (not even a hdd driver has been loaded yet) so a new
firmware load attempt cannot simply be done.

It is pointless anyway - for that there's late loading if one really
needs it.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221028142638.28498-3-bp@alien8.de

This is a left-over from the old days when CPU hotplug wasn't as robust
as it is now. Currently, microcode gets loaded early on the CPU init
path and there's no need to attempt to load it again, which that subsys
interface callback is doing.

The only other thing that the subsys interface init path was doing is
adding the

  /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/microcode/

hierarchy.

So add a function which gets called on each CPU after all the necessary
driver setup has happened. Use schedule_on_each_cpu() which can block
because the sysfs creating code does kmem_cache_zalloc() which can block
too and the initial version of this where it did that setup in an IPI
handler of on_each_cpu() can cause a deadlock of the sort:

  lock(fs_reclaim);
  <Interrupt>
    lock(fs_reclaim);

as the IPI handler runs in IRQ context.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221028142638.28498-2-bp@alien8.de

Print both old and new versions of microcode after a reload is complete
because knowing the previous microcode version is sometimes important
from a debugging perspective.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220829181030.722891-1-ashok.raj@intel.com

c93dc84cbe32 ("perf/x86: Add a microcode revision check for SNB-PEBS")
checks whether the microcode revision has fixed PEBS issues.

This can happen either:

1. At PEBS init time, where the early microcode has been loaded already

2. During late loading, in the microcode_check() callback.

So remove the unnecessary call in the microcode loader init routine.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220525161232.14924-5-bp@alien8.de

Warn before it is attempted and taint the kernel. Late loading microcode
can lead to malfunction of the kernel when the microcode update changes
behaviour. There is no way for the kernel to determine whether its safe or
not.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220525161232.14924-4-bp@alien8.de

It is dangerous and it should not be used anyway - there's a nice early
loading already.

Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220525161232.14924-3-bp@alien8.de

Everything should be using the early initrd loading by now.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220525161232.14924-2-bp@alien8.de