x86/microcode/amd: Extract current patch level read to a function
authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:22:41 +0000 (11:22 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:28:10 +0000 (21:28 +0100)
commitc908303c3dc140d91847eed8ccaaed7736cef884
treefe7d7d07a8cf120ef7bbad4f97e19a609018a6b1
parent53fd7f912c0877647d6a1e1877f5ea8535ee0b4a
x86/microcode/amd: Extract current patch level read to a function

commit 2eff73c0a11f19ff082a566e3429fbaaca7b8e7b upstream.

Pave the way for checking the current patch level of the
microcode in a core. We want to be able to do stuff depending on
the patch level - in this case decide whether to update or not.
But that will be added in a later patch.

Drop unused local var uci assignment, while at it.

Integrate a fix for 32-bit and CONFIG_PARAVIRT from Takashi Iwai:

 Use native_rdmsr() in check_current_patch_level() because with
 CONFIG_PARAVIRT enabled and on 32-bit, where we run before
 paging has been enabled, we cannot deref pv_info yet. Or we
 could, but we'd need to access its physical address. This way of
 fixing it is simpler. See:

   https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=943179 for the background.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>:
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444641762-9437-6-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h
arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c