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| author | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2018-02-16 12:26:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-02-17 08:43:55 +0100 |
| commit | 42ca8082e260dcfd8afa2afa6ec1940b9d41724c (patch) | |
| tree | 6d2d1a2da924b9a2a72bfc1e32bc6f9bc0039c70 /arch/x86/kernel | |
| parent | 1008c52c09dcb23d93f8e0ea83a6246265d2cce0 (diff) | |
x86/CPU: Check CPU feature bits after microcode upgrade
With some microcode upgrades, new CPUID features can become visible on
the CPU. Check what the kernel has mirrored now and issue a warning
hinting at possible things the user/admin can do to make use of the
newly visible features.
Originally-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180216112640.11554-4-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index 84f1cd88608b..348cf4821240 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -1757,5 +1757,25 @@ core_initcall(init_cpu_syscore); */ void microcode_check(void) { + struct cpuinfo_x86 info; + perf_check_microcode(); + + /* Reload CPUID max function as it might've changed. */ + info.cpuid_level = cpuid_eax(0); + + /* + * Copy all capability leafs to pick up the synthetic ones so that + * memcmp() below doesn't fail on that. The ones coming from CPUID will + * get overwritten in get_cpu_cap(). + */ + memcpy(&info.x86_capability, &boot_cpu_data.x86_capability, sizeof(info.x86_capability)); + + get_cpu_cap(&info); + + if (!memcmp(&info.x86_capability, &boot_cpu_data.x86_capability, sizeof(info.x86_capability))) + return; + + pr_warn("x86/CPU: CPU features have changed after loading microcode, but might not take effect.\n"); + pr_warn("x86/CPU: Please consider either early loading through initrd/built-in or a potential BIOS update.\n"); } |