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<title>linux.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c, branch v6.16</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86/cpuid: Rename have_cpuid_p() to cpuid_feature()</title>
<updated>2025-05-15T16:23:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ahmed S. Darwish</name>
<email>darwi@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-08T15:02:32+00:00</published>
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In order to let all the APIs under &lt;cpuid/api.h&gt; have a shared "cpuid_"
namespace, rename have_cpuid_p() to cpuid_feature().

Adjust all call-sites accordingly.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwi@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86-cpuid@lists.linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508150240.172915-4-darwi@linutronix.de
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In order to let all the APIs under &lt;cpuid/api.h&gt; have a shared "cpuid_"
namespace, rename have_cpuid_p() to cpuid_feature().

Adjust all call-sites accordingly.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwi@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86-cpuid@lists.linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508150240.172915-4-darwi@linutronix.de
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86/msr' into x86/core, to resolve conflicts</title>
<updated>2025-05-13T08:42:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-13T08:42:06+00:00</published>
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 Conflicts:
	arch/x86/boot/startup/sme.c
	arch/x86/coco/sev/core.c
	arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
	arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c

 Semantic conflict:
	arch/x86/include/asm/sev-internal.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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 Conflicts:
	arch/x86/boot/startup/sme.c
	arch/x86/coco/sev/core.c
	arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
	arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c

 Semantic conflict:
	arch/x86/include/asm/sev-internal.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86/microcode' into x86/core, to merge dependent commits</title>
<updated>2025-05-13T08:37:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-13T08:37:52+00:00</published>
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Prepare to resolve conflicts with an upstream series of fixes that conflict
with pending x86 changes:

  6f5bf947bab0 Merge tag 'its-for-linus-20250509' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Prepare to resolve conflicts with an upstream series of fixes that conflict
with pending x86 changes:

  6f5bf947bab0 Merge tag 'its-for-linus-20250509' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Consolidate the loader enablement checking</title>
<updated>2025-05-05T08:51:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-14T09:59:33+00:00</published>
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Consolidate the whole logic which determines whether the microcode loader
should be enabled or not into a single function and call it everywhere.

Well, almost everywhere - not in mk_early_pgtbl_32() because there the kernel
is running without paging enabled and checking dis_ucode_ldr et al would
require physical addresses and uglification of the code.

But since this is 32-bit, the easier thing to do is to simply map the initrd
unconditionally especially since that mapping is getting removed later anyway
by zap_early_initrd_mapping() and avoid the uglification.

In doing so, address the issue of old 486er machines without CPUID
support, not booting current kernels.

  [ mingo: Fix no previous prototype for ‘microcode_loader_disabled’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] ]

Fixes: 4c585af7180c1 ("x86/boot/32: Temporarily map initrd for microcode loading")
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CANpbe9Wm3z8fy9HbgS8cuhoj0TREYEEkBipDuhgkWFvqX0UoVQ@mail.gmail.com
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Consolidate the whole logic which determines whether the microcode loader
should be enabled or not into a single function and call it everywhere.

Well, almost everywhere - not in mk_early_pgtbl_32() because there the kernel
is running without paging enabled and checking dis_ucode_ldr et al would
require physical addresses and uglification of the code.

But since this is 32-bit, the easier thing to do is to simply map the initrd
unconditionally especially since that mapping is getting removed later anyway
by zap_early_initrd_mapping() and avoid the uglification.

In doing so, address the issue of old 486er machines without CPUID
support, not booting current kernels.

  [ mingo: Fix no previous prototype for ‘microcode_loader_disabled’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] ]

Fixes: 4c585af7180c1 ("x86/boot/32: Temporarily map initrd for microcode loading")
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CANpbe9Wm3z8fy9HbgS8cuhoj0TREYEEkBipDuhgkWFvqX0UoVQ@mail.gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/msr: Add explicit includes of &lt;asm/msr.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2025-05-02T08:23:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xin Li (Intel)</name>
<email>xin@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-01T05:42:41+00:00</published>
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For historic reasons there are some TSC-related functions in the
&lt;asm/msr.h&gt; header, even though there's an &lt;asm/tsc.h&gt; header.

To facilitate the relocation of rdtsc{,_ordered}() from &lt;asm/msr.h&gt;
to &lt;asm/tsc.h&gt; and to eventually eliminate the inclusion of
&lt;asm/msr.h&gt; in &lt;asm/tsc.h&gt;, add an explicit &lt;asm/msr.h&gt; dependency
to the source files that reference definitions from &lt;asm/msr.h&gt;.

[ mingo: Clarified the changelog. ]

Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) &lt;xin@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250501054241.1245648-1-xin@zytor.com
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For historic reasons there are some TSC-related functions in the
&lt;asm/msr.h&gt; header, even though there's an &lt;asm/tsc.h&gt; header.

To facilitate the relocation of rdtsc{,_ordered}() from &lt;asm/msr.h&gt;
to &lt;asm/tsc.h&gt; and to eventually eliminate the inclusion of
&lt;asm/msr.h&gt; in &lt;asm/tsc.h&gt;, add an explicit &lt;asm/msr.h&gt; dependency
to the source files that reference definitions from &lt;asm/msr.h&gt;.

[ mingo: Clarified the changelog. ]

Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) &lt;xin@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250501054241.1245648-1-xin@zytor.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode/AMD: Do not return error when microcode update is not necessary</title>
<updated>2025-04-30T15:10:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Annie Li</name>
<email>jiayanli@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-30T05:34:24+00:00</published>
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After

  6f059e634dcd("x86/microcode: Clarify the late load logic"),

if the load is up-to-date, the AMD side returns UCODE_OK which leads to
load_late_locked() returning -EBADFD.

Handle UCODE_OK in the switch case to avoid this error.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Fixes: 6f059e634dcd ("x86/microcode: Clarify the late load logic")
Signed-off-by: Annie Li &lt;jiayanli@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250430053424.77438-1-jiayanli@google.com
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After

  6f059e634dcd("x86/microcode: Clarify the late load logic"),

if the load is up-to-date, the AMD side returns UCODE_OK which leads to
load_late_locked() returning -EBADFD.

Handle UCODE_OK in the switch case to avoid this error.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Fixes: 6f059e634dcd ("x86/microcode: Clarify the late load logic")
Signed-off-by: Annie Li &lt;jiayanli@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250430053424.77438-1-jiayanli@google.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Remove unused struct cpu_info_ctx</title>
<updated>2024-05-06T09:00:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dr. David Alan Gilbert</name>
<email>linux@treblig.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-06T00:43:00+00:00</published>
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This looks unused since

  2071c0aeda22 ("x86/microcode: Simplify init path even more")

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;linux@treblig.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240506004300.770564-1-linux@treblig.org
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This looks unused since

  2071c0aeda22 ("x86/microcode: Simplify init path even more")

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;linux@treblig.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240506004300.770564-1-linux@treblig.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Rework early revisions reporting</title>
<updated>2023-11-21T15:35:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-15T21:02:12+00:00</published>
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The AMD side of the loader issues the microcode revision for each
logical thread on the system, which can become really noisy on huge
machines. And doing that doesn't make a whole lot of sense - the
microcode revision is already in /proc/cpuinfo.

So in case one is interested in the theoretical support of mixed silicon
steppings on AMD, one can check there.

What is also missing on the AMD side - something which people have
requested before - is showing the microcode revision the CPU had
*before* the early update.

So abstract that up in the main code and have the BSP on each vendor
provide those revision numbers.

Then, dump them only once on driver init.

On Intel, do not dump the patch date - it is not needed.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wg=%2B8rceshMkB4VnKxmRccVLtBLPBawnewZuuqyx5U=3A@mail.gmail.com
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The AMD side of the loader issues the microcode revision for each
logical thread on the system, which can become really noisy on huge
machines. And doing that doesn't make a whole lot of sense - the
microcode revision is already in /proc/cpuinfo.

So in case one is interested in the theoretical support of mixed silicon
steppings on AMD, one can check there.

What is also missing on the AMD side - something which people have
requested before - is showing the microcode revision the CPU had
*before* the early update.

So abstract that up in the main code and have the BSP on each vendor
provide those revision numbers.

Then, dump them only once on driver init.

On Intel, do not dump the patch date - it is not needed.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wg=%2B8rceshMkB4VnKxmRccVLtBLPBawnewZuuqyx5U=3A@mail.gmail.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Remove the driver announcement and version</title>
<updated>2023-11-21T15:20:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-15T21:02:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2e569ada424c40ce27c99bfab4f9780619061c83'/>
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First of all, the print is useless. The driver will either load and say
which microcode revision the machine has or issue an error.

Then, the version number is meaningless and actively confusing, as Yazen
mentioned recently: when a subset of patches are backported to a distro
kernel, one can't assume the driver version is the same as the upstream
one. And besides, the version number of the loader hasn't been used and
incremented for a long time. So drop it.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231115210212.9981-2-bp@alien8.de
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First of all, the print is useless. The driver will either load and say
which microcode revision the machine has or issue an error.

Then, the version number is meaningless and actively confusing, as Yazen
mentioned recently: when a subset of patches are backported to a distro
kernel, one can't assume the driver version is the same as the upstream
one. And besides, the version number of the loader hasn't been used and
incremented for a long time. So drop it.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231115210212.9981-2-bp@alien8.de
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Prepare for minimal revision check</title>
<updated>2023-10-24T13:05:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-17T21:24:16+00:00</published>
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Applying microcode late can be fatal for the running kernel when the
update changes functionality which is in use already in a non-compatible
way, e.g. by removing a CPUID bit.

There is no way for admins which do not have access to the vendors deep
technical support to decide whether late loading of such a microcode is
safe or not.

Intel has added a new field to the microcode header which tells the
minimal microcode revision which is required to be active in the CPU in
order to be safe.

Provide infrastructure for handling this in the core code and a command
line switch which allows to enforce it.

If the update is considered safe the kernel is not tainted and the annoying
warning message not emitted. If it's enforced and the currently loaded
microcode revision is not safe for late loading then the load is aborted.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211724.079611170@linutronix.de
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Applying microcode late can be fatal for the running kernel when the
update changes functionality which is in use already in a non-compatible
way, e.g. by removing a CPUID bit.

There is no way for admins which do not have access to the vendors deep
technical support to decide whether late loading of such a microcode is
safe or not.

Intel has added a new field to the microcode header which tells the
minimal microcode revision which is required to be active in the CPU in
order to be safe.

Provide infrastructure for handling this in the core code and a command
line switch which allows to enforce it.

If the update is considered safe the kernel is not tainted and the annoying
warning message not emitted. If it's enforced and the currently loaded
microcode revision is not safe for late loading then the load is aborted.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211724.079611170@linutronix.de
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