linux.git/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c, branch v3.10 Linux kernel source tree x86, microcode, AMD: Add support for family 16h processors 2012-11-21T06:23:28+00:00 Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky@amd.com 2012-11-15T18:41:50+00:00 36c46ca4f322a7bf89aad5462a3a1f61713edce7 Add valid patch size for family 16h processors. [ hpa: promoting to urgent/stable since it is hw enabling and trivial ] Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1353004910-2204-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@amd.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> 
Add valid patch size for family 16h processors.

[ hpa: promoting to urgent/stable since it is hw enabling and trivial ]

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1353004910-2204-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@amd.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
x86, microcode_amd: Change email addresses, MAINTAINERS entry 2012-10-30T09:05:52+00:00 Andreas Herrmann herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com 2012-10-29T17:51:38+00:00 943482d07e926128eed0482b879736f912c429e4 Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com> Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sf.net Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Jorg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121029175138.GC5024@tweety Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com>
Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sf.net
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jorg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121029175138.GC5024@tweety
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
x86, microcode, AMD: Fix use after free in free_cache() 2012-09-19T16:06:25+00:00 Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com 2012-09-05T12:30:42+00:00 2d297480037e1d9100ca504737820c1bf65db6c0 list_for_each_entry_reverse() dereferences the iterator, but we already freed it. I don't see a reason that this has to be done in reverse order so change it to use list_for_each_entry_safe(). Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> 
list_for_each_entry_reverse() dereferences the iterator, but we already
freed it. I don't see a reason that this has to be done in reverse order
so change it to use list_for_each_entry_safe().

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
x86, microcode, AMD: Rewrite patch application procedure 2012-08-22T23:16:29+00:00 Borislav Petkov borislav.petkov@amd.com 2012-08-01T14:16:13+00:00 2efb05e8e9fa3510044e007b90263c73b6a83f84 Limit the access to userspace only on the BSP where we load the container, verify the patches in it and put them in the patch cache. Then, at application time, we lookup the correct patch in the cache and use it. When we need to reload the userspace container, we do that over the reload interface: echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload which reloads (a possibly newer) container from userspace and applies then the newest patches from there. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361461-10076-13-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> 
Limit the access to userspace only on the BSP where we load the
container, verify the patches in it and put them in the patch cache.
Then, at application time, we lookup the correct patch in the cache and
use it.

When we need to reload the userspace container, we do that over the
reload interface:

echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload

which reloads (a possibly newer) container from userspace and applies
then the newest patches from there.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361461-10076-13-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
x86, microcode, AMD: Add a small, per-family patches cache 2012-08-22T23:16:21+00:00 Borislav Petkov borislav.petkov@amd.com 2012-08-01T13:38:18+00:00 a3eb3b4da106a23b5d41bf915726172e31654a65 This is a trivial cache which collects all ucode patches for the current family of CPUs on the system. If a newer patch appears due to the container file being updated in userspace, we replace our cached version with the new one. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361461-10076-12-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> 
This is a trivial cache which collects all ucode patches for the current
family of CPUs on the system. If a newer patch appears due to the
container file being updated in userspace, we replace our cached version
with the new one.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361461-10076-12-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
x86, microcode, AMD: Add reverse equiv table search 2012-08-22T23:16:11+00:00 Borislav Petkov borislav.petkov@amd.com 2012-08-01T12:55:01+00:00 c96d2c0905cc48e34f2b37b775b59932c416b343 We search the equivalence table using the CPUID(1) signature of the CPU in order to get the equivalence ID of the patch which we need to apply. Add a function which does the reverse - it will be needed in later patches. While at it, pull the other equiv table function up in the file so that it can be used by other functionality without forward declarations. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361461-10076-11-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> 
We search the equivalence table using the CPUID(1) signature of the
CPU in order to get the equivalence ID of the patch which we need to
apply. Add a function which does the reverse - it will be needed in
later patches.

While at it, pull the other equiv table function up in the file so that
it can be used by other functionality without forward declarations.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361461-10076-11-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
x86, microcode: Add a refresh firmware flag to ->request_microcode_fw 2012-08-22T23:15:58+00:00 Borislav Petkov borislav.petkov@amd.com 2012-07-26T13:51:00+00:00 48e30685caa8bdc4b8d4417d8ac31db59689742c This is done in preparation for teaching the ucode driver to either load a new ucode patches container from userspace or use an already cached version. No functionality change in this patch. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361461-10076-10-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> 
This is done in preparation for teaching the ucode driver to either load
a new ucode patches container from userspace or use an already cached
version. No functionality change in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361461-10076-10-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
x86, microcode, AMD: Read CPUID(1).EAX on the correct cpu 2012-08-22T23:15:50+00:00 Borislav Petkov borislav.petkov@amd.com 2012-07-25T18:06:54+00:00 5f5b747282c6cc57b91baba37f76de27398b9e60 Read the CPUID(1).EAX leaf at the correct cpu and use it to search the equivalence table for matching microcode patch. No functionality change. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361461-10076-9-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> 
Read the CPUID(1).EAX leaf at the correct cpu and use it to search the
equivalence table for matching microcode patch. No functionality change.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361461-10076-9-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
x86, microcode, AMD: Check before applying a patch 2012-08-22T23:15:41+00:00 Borislav Petkov borislav.petkov@amd.com 2012-06-20T14:17:51+00:00 685ca6d797af9d41164dd64dd60145d4946fc152 Make sure we're actually applying a microcode patch to a core which really needs it. This brings only a very very very minor slowdown on F10: 0.032218828 sec vs 0.056010626 sec with this patch. And small speedup on F15: 0.487089449 sec vs 0.180551162 sec (from perf output). Also, fixup comments while at it. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361461-10076-8-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> 
Make sure we're actually applying a microcode patch to a core which
really needs it.

This brings only a very very very minor slowdown on F10:

0.032218828 sec vs 0.056010626 sec with this patch.

And small speedup on F15:

0.487089449 sec vs 0.180551162 sec (from perf output).

Also, fixup comments while at it.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361461-10076-8-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
x86, microcode, AMD: Remove useless get_ucode_data wrapper 2012-08-22T23:15:26+00:00 Borislav Petkov borislav.petkov@amd.com 2012-07-20T12:12:21+00:00 e7e632f5ba240fbc313c49ed6559681ea57534e9 get_ucode_data was a trivial memcpy wrapper. Remove it so as not to obfuscate code unnecessarily with no obvious gain. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361461-10076-7-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> 
get_ucode_data was a trivial memcpy wrapper. Remove it so as not to
obfuscate code unnecessarily with no obvious gain.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344361461-10076-7-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>