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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2023-08-12 21:58:50 +0200
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2023-08-13 18:42:55 +0200
commitd2700f406713d04573803b9fe8a0fb02c015df39 (patch)
tree60e8aadbf3b605bd99dd1d264e971a931de79e9b /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
parentd44450c5939949fe37e4e94db69429de1ab1aad6 (diff)
x86/microcode/intel: Remove pointless mutex
There is no concurrency. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230812195728.069849788@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c24
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
index 8621ef46ab98..94dd6af9c963 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
@@ -397,22 +397,6 @@ next:
return patch;
}
-/*
- * Save this microcode patch. It will be loaded early when a CPU is
- * hot-added or resumes.
- */
-static void save_mc_for_early(struct ucode_cpu_info *uci, u8 *mc, unsigned int size)
-{
- /* Synchronization during CPU hotplug. */
- static DEFINE_MUTEX(x86_cpu_microcode_mutex);
-
- mutex_lock(&x86_cpu_microcode_mutex);
-
- save_microcode_patch(uci, mc, size);
-
- mutex_unlock(&x86_cpu_microcode_mutex);
-}
-
static bool load_builtin_intel_microcode(struct cpio_data *cp)
{
unsigned int eax = 1, ebx, ecx = 0, edx;
@@ -829,12 +813,8 @@ static enum ucode_state generic_load_microcode(int cpu, struct iov_iter *iter)
vfree(uci->mc);
uci->mc = (struct microcode_intel *)new_mc;
- /*
- * If early loading microcode is supported, save this mc into
- * permanent memory. So it will be loaded early when a CPU is hot added
- * or resumes.
- */
- save_mc_for_early(uci, new_mc, new_mc_size);
+ /* Save for CPU hotplug */
+ save_microcode_patch(uci, new_mc, new_mc_size);
pr_debug("CPU%d found a matching microcode update with version 0x%x (current=0x%x)\n",
cpu, new_rev, uci->cpu_sig.rev);