[tip:x86/urgent] x86/microcode/intel: Replace sync_core() with native_cpuid()

From: tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
Date: Mon Dec 19 2016 - 06:07:48 EST


Commit-ID: 484d0e5c7943644cc46e7308a8f9d83be598f2b9
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/484d0e5c7943644cc46e7308a8f9d83be598f2b9
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 10:24:07 -0800
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:54:21 +0100

x86/microcode/intel: Replace sync_core() with native_cpuid()

The Intel microcode driver is using sync_core() to mean "do CPUID
with EAX=1". I want to rework sync_core(), but first the Intel
microcode driver needs to stop depending on its current behavior.

Reported-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: xen-devel <Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/535a025bb91fed1a019c5412b036337ad239e5bb.1481307769.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
index 54d50c3..b624b54 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
@@ -368,6 +368,26 @@ next:
return patch;
}

+static void cpuid_1(void)
+{
+ /*
+ * According to the Intel SDM, Volume 3, 9.11.7:
+ *
+ * CPUID returns a value in a model specific register in
+ * addition to its usual register return values. The
+ * semantics of CPUID cause it to deposit an update ID value
+ * in the 64-bit model-specific register at address 08BH
+ * (IA32_BIOS_SIGN_ID). If no update is present in the
+ * processor, the value in the MSR remains unmodified.
+ *
+ * Use native_cpuid -- this code runs very early and we don't
+ * want to mess with paravirt.
+ */
+ unsigned int eax = 1, ebx, ecx = 0, edx;
+
+ native_cpuid(&eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
+}
+
static int collect_cpu_info_early(struct ucode_cpu_info *uci)
{
unsigned int val[2];
@@ -393,7 +413,7 @@ static int collect_cpu_info_early(struct ucode_cpu_info *uci)
native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, 0);

/* As documented in the SDM: Do a CPUID 1 here */
- sync_core();
+ cpuid_1();

/* get the current revision from MSR 0x8B */
native_rdmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, val[0], val[1]);
@@ -593,7 +613,7 @@ static int apply_microcode_early(struct ucode_cpu_info *uci, bool early)
native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, 0);

/* As documented in the SDM: Do a CPUID 1 here */
- sync_core();
+ cpuid_1();

/* get the current revision from MSR 0x8B */
native_rdmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, val[0], val[1]);
@@ -805,7 +825,7 @@ static int apply_microcode_intel(int cpu)
wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, 0);

/* As documented in the SDM: Do a CPUID 1 here */
- sync_core();
+ cpuid_1();

/* get the current revision from MSR 0x8B */
rdmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, val[0], val[1]);