Re: [PATCH] x86, microcode, AMD: Add support for family 16hprocessors

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> Add valid patch size for family 16h processors
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxx>

Is this something that needs to go to -stable ?

>  #define F1XH_MPB_MAX_SIZE 2048
>  #define F14H_MPB_MAX_SIZE 1824
>  #define F15H_MPB_MAX_SIZE 4096
> +#define F16H_MPB_MAX_SIZE 3458
>  
>  	switch (c->x86) {
>  	case 0x14:
> @@ -198,6 +199,9 @@ static unsigned int verify_patch_size(int cpu, u32 patch_size,
>  	case 0x15:
>  		max_size = F15H_MPB_MAX_SIZE;
>  		break;
> +	case 0x16:
> +		max_size = F16H_MPB_MAX_SIZE;
> +		break;
>  	default:
>  		max_size = F1XH_MPB_MAX_SIZE;
>  		break;

Because it looks like without this patch, some valid microcode updates
would be rejected by the kernel...

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