- 06 12月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Borislav Petkov 提交于
Normally, we do reapply microcode on resume. However, in the cases where that microcode comes from the early loader and the late loader hasn't been utilized yet, there's no easy way for us to go and apply the patch applied during boot by the early loader. Thus, reuse the patch stashed by the early loader for the BSP. Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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- 28 7月, 2014 1 次提交
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According to the Intel SDM vol 3A (order code 253668-051US, June 2014), on section 9.11.1, page 9-28: "For microcode updates with a data size field equal to 00000000H, the size of the microcode update is 2048 bytes. The first 48 bytes contain the microcode update header. The remaining 2000 bytes contain encrypted data." "For microcode updates with a data size not equal to 00000000H, the total size field specifies the size of the microcode update." Up to 2002/2003, Intel used an "old format" for the microcode update containers that was always 2048 bytes in size. That old format did not have Data Size and Total Size fields, the quadwords at those positions in the microcode container header were "reserved". The microcode header of the "old format" microcode container has a hrdver of 0x01. You can hunt down an old copy of the Intel SDM to validate this through its order number (#243192). I found one from 1999 through a Google search. Sometime in 2002/2003 (AFAICT, for the Prescott processors), Intel documented a new format for the microcode containers and contributed in 2003 some code to the Linux kernel microcode driver implementing support for the new format. This new format has Data Size and Total Size fields, as well as the optional extended signature table. However, it reuses the same hrdver as the old format (0x01), and it can only be told apart from the old format by a non-zero Data Size field. In fact, the only reason we can even trust a Data Size of zero to mean that the microcode container is in the old format, is because Intel reatroatively promised that the old format would always have a zero there when they wrote the documentation for the _new_ format. This is a very old bug, dating back to 2003. It has been dormant ever since, as Intel seems to set all reserved fields to zero on the microcode updates they distribute: I could not find a public microcode update that would trigger this bug. Signed-off-by: NHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406146251-8540-1-git-send-email-hmh@hmh.eng.brSigned-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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- 15 7月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Paul Gortmaker 提交于
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in commit 5e427ec2 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created with improper use of the various __init prefixes. After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. Note that some harmless section mismatch warnings may result, since notify_cpu_starting() and cpu_up() are arch independent (kernel/cpu.c) are flagged as __cpuinit -- so if we remove the __cpuinit from arch specific callers, we will also get section mismatch warnings. As an intermediate step, we intend to turn the linux/init.h cpuinit content into no-ops as early as possible, since that will get rid of these warnings. In any case, they are temporary and harmless. This removes all the arch/x86 uses of the __cpuinit macros from all C files. x86 only had the one __CPUINIT used in assembly files, and it wasn't paired off with a .previous or a __FINIT, so we can delete it directly w/o any corresponding additional change there. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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- 31 5月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Jacob Shin 提交于
Currently save_microcode_in_initrd() is declared in vendor neutural microcode.h file, but defined in vendor specific microcode_intel_early.c file. Vendor abstract it out to microcode_core_early.c with a wrapper function. Signed-off-by: NJacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369940959-2077-3-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.comSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
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- 01 2月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Fenghua Yu 提交于
Define some functions and macros that will be used in early loading ucode. Some of them are moved from microcode_intel.c driver in order to be called in early boot phase before module can be called. Signed-off-by: NFenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356075872-3054-3-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.comSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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