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x86/microcode/intel: Check microcode revision before updating sibling threads
authorAshok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:28:41 +0000 (11:28 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 16 May 2019 17:45:08 +0000 (19:45 +0200)
commit c182d2b7d0ca48e0d6ff16f7d883161238c447ed upstream.

After updating microcode on one of the threads of a core, the other
thread sibling automatically gets the update since the microcode
resources on a hyperthreaded core are shared between the two threads.

Check the microcode revision on the CPU before performing a microcode
update and thus save us the WRMSR 0x79 because it is a particularly
expensive operation.

[ Borislav: Massage changelog and coding style. ]

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519352533-15992-2-git-send-email-ashok.raj@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180228102846.13447-3-bp@alien8.de
[bwh: Backported to 4.4:
 - s/mc->/mc_intel->/
 - Return 0 in this case
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c

index f3bc28f7ce3959e6228b378a546e8aa83ac68fff..0cef2b61f9203ee93208a3a81c40ab39fdedd8ff 100644 (file)
@@ -653,6 +653,17 @@ static int apply_microcode_early(struct ucode_cpu_info *uci, bool early)
        if (mc_intel == NULL)
                return 0;
 
+       /*
+        * Save us the MSR write below - which is a particular expensive
+        * operation - when the other hyperthread has updated the microcode
+        * already.
+        */
+       rev = intel_get_microcode_revision();
+       if (rev >= mc_intel->hdr.rev) {
+               uci->cpu_sig.rev = rev;
+               return 0;
+       }
+
        /* write microcode via MSR 0x79 */
        native_wrmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_WRITE,
              (unsigned long) mc_intel->bits,
@@ -861,6 +872,18 @@ static int apply_microcode_intel(int cpu)
        if (get_matching_mc(mc_intel, cpu) == 0)
                return 0;
 
+       /*
+        * Save us the MSR write below - which is a particular expensive
+        * operation - when the other hyperthread has updated the microcode
+        * already.
+        */
+       rev = intel_get_microcode_revision();
+       if (rev >= mc_intel->hdr.rev) {
+               uci->cpu_sig.rev = rev;
+               c->microcode = rev;
+               return 0;
+       }
+
        /* write microcode via MSR 0x79 */
        wrmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_WRITE,
              (unsigned long) mc_intel->bits,