The AMD side of the loader issues the microcode revision for each
logical thread on the system, which can become really noisy on huge
machines. And doing that doesn't make a whole lot of sense - the
microcode revision is already in /proc/cpuinfo.
So in case one is interested in the theoretical support of mixed silicon
steppings on AMD, one can check there.
What is also missing on the AMD side - something which people have
requested before - is showing the microcode revision the CPU had
*before* the early update.
So abstract that up in the main code and have the BSP on each vendor
provide those revision numbers.
Then, dump them only once on driver init.
On Intel, do not dump the patch date - it is not needed.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wg=%2B8rceshMkB4VnKxmRccVLtBLPBawnewZuuqyx5U=3A@mail.gmail.com
First of all, the print is useless. The driver will either load and say
which microcode revision the machine has or issue an error.
Then, the version number is meaningless and actively confusing, as Yazen
mentioned recently: when a subset of patches are backported to a distro
kernel, one can't assume the driver version is the same as the upstream
one. And besides, the version number of the loader hasn't been used and
incremented for a long time. So drop it.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231115210212.9981-2-bp@alien8.de
Applying microcode late can be fatal for the running kernel when the
update changes functionality which is in use already in a non-compatible
way, e.g. by removing a CPUID bit.
There is no way for admins which do not have access to the vendors deep
technical support to decide whether late loading of such a microcode is
safe or not.
Intel has added a new field to the microcode header which tells the
minimal microcode revision which is required to be active in the CPU in
order to be safe.
Provide infrastructure for handling this in the core code and a command
line switch which allows to enforce it.
If the update is considered safe the kernel is not tainted and the annoying
warning message not emitted. If it's enforced and the currently loaded
microcode revision is not safe for late loading then the load is aborted.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211724.079611170@linutronix.de
Offline CPUs need to be parked in a safe loop when microcode update is
in progress on the primary CPU. Currently, offline CPUs are parked in
mwait_play_dead(), and for Intel CPUs, its not a safe instruction,
because the MWAIT instruction can be patched in the new microcode update
that can cause instability.
- Add a new microcode state 'UCODE_OFFLINE' to report status on per-CPU
basis.
- Force NMI on the offline CPUs.
Wake up offline CPUs while the update is in progress and then return
them back to mwait_play_dead() after microcode update is complete.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.660850472@linutronix.de
The wait for control loop in which the siblings are waiting for the
microcode update on the primary thread must be protected against
instrumentation as instrumentation can end up in #INT3, #DB or #PF,
which then returns with IRET. That IRET reenables NMI which is the
opposite of what the NMI rendezvous is trying to achieve.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.545969323@linutronix.de
stop_machine() does not prevent the spin-waiting sibling from handling
an NMI, which is obviously violating the whole concept of rendezvous.
Implement a static branch right in the beginning of the NMI handler
which is nopped out except when enabled by the late loading mechanism.
The late loader enables the static branch before stop_machine() is
invoked. Each CPU has an nmi_enable in its control structure which
indicates whether the CPU should go into the update routine.
This is required to bridge the gap between enabling the branch and
actually being at the point where it is required to enter the loader
wait loop.
Each CPU which arrives in the stopper thread function sets that flag and
issues a self NMI right after that. If the NMI function sees the flag
clear, it returns. If it's set it clears the flag and enters the
rendezvous.
This is safe against a real NMI which hits in between setting the flag
and sending the NMI to itself. The real NMI will be swallowed by the
microcode update and the self NMI will then let stuff continue.
Otherwise this would end up with a spurious NMI.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.489900814@linutronix.de
with a new handler which just separates the control flow of primary and
secondary CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.433704135@linutronix.de
The current all in one code is unreadable and really not suited for
adding future features like uniform loading with package or system
scope.
Provide a set of new control functions which split the handling of the
primary and secondary CPUs. These will replace the current rendezvous
all in one function in the next step. This is intentionally a separate
change because diff makes an complete unreadable mess otherwise.
So the flow separates the primary and the secondary CPUs into their own
functions which use the control field in the per CPU ucode_ctrl struct.
primary() secondary()
wait_for_all() wait_for_all()
apply_ucode() wait_for_release()
release() apply_ucode()
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.377922731@linutronix.de
Add a per CPU control field to ucode_ctrl and define constants for it
which are going to be used to control the loading state machine.
In theory this could be a global control field, but a global control does
not cover the following case:
15 primary CPUs load microcode successfully
1 primary CPU fails and returns with an error code
With global control the sibling of the failed CPU would either try again or
the whole operation would be aborted with the consequence that the 15
siblings do not invoke the apply path and end up with inconsistent software
state. The result in dmesg would be inconsistent too.
There are two additional fields added and initialized:
ctrl_cpu and secondaries. ctrl_cpu is the CPU number of the primary thread
for now, but with the upcoming uniform loading at package or system scope
this will be one CPU per package or just one CPU. Secondaries hands the
control CPU a CPU mask which will be required to release the secondary CPUs
out of the wait loop.
Preparatory change for implementing a properly split control flow for
primary and secondary CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.319959519@linutronix.de
The microcode rendezvous is purely acting on global state, which does
not allow to analyze fails in a coherent way.
Introduce per CPU state where the results are written into, which allows to
analyze the return codes of the individual CPUs.
Initialize the state when walking the cpu_present_mask in the online
check to avoid another for_each_cpu() loop.
Enhance the result print out with that.
The structure is intentionally named ucode_ctrl as it will gain control
fields in subsequent changes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211723.632681010@linutronix.de
The code is too complicated for no reason:
- The return value is pointless as this is a strict boolean.
- It's way simpler to count down from num_online_cpus() and check for
zero.
- The timeout argument is pointless as this is always one second.
- Touching the NMI watchdog every 100ns does not make any sense, neither
does checking every 100ns. This is really not a hotpath operation.
Preload the atomic counter with the number of online CPUs and simplify the
whole timeout logic. Delay for one microsecond and touch the NMI watchdog
once per millisecond.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.204251527@linutronix.de
reload_store() is way too complicated. Split the inner workings out and
make the following enhancements:
- Taint the kernel only when the microcode was actually updated. If. e.g.
the rendezvous fails, then nothing happened and there is no reason for
tainting.
- Return useful error codes
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.145048840@linutronix.de
On CPUs where microcode loading is not NMI-safe the SMT siblings which
are parked in one of the play_dead() variants still react to NMIs.
So if an NMI hits while the primary thread updates the microcode the
resulting behaviour is undefined. The default play_dead() implementation on
modern CPUs is using MWAIT which is not guaranteed to be safe against
a microcode update which affects MWAIT.
Take the cpus_booted_once_mask into account to detect this case and
refuse to load late if the vendor specific driver does not advertise
that late loading is NMI safe.
AMD stated that this is safe, so mark the AMD driver accordingly.
This requirement will be partially lifted in later changes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.087472735@linutronix.de
This function has nothing to do with suspend. It's a hotplug
callback. Remove the bogus comment.
Drop the pointless debug printk. The hotplug core provides tracepoints
which track the invocation of those callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.028651784@linutronix.de
Scheduling work on all CPUs to collect the microcode information is just
another extra step for no value. Let the CPU hotplug callback registration
do it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211723.354748138@linutronix.de
Get rid of the initrd_gone hack which was required to keep
find_microcode_in_initrd() functional after init.
As find_microcode_in_initrd() is now only used during init, mark it
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211723.298854846@linutronix.de
Now that the microcode cache is initialized before the APs are brought
up, there is no point in scanning builtin/initrd microcode during AP
loading.
Convert the AP loader to utilize the cache, which in turn makes the CPU
hotplug callback which applies the microcode after initrd/builtin is
gone, obsolete as the early loading during late hotplug operations
including the resume path depends now only on the cache.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211723.243426023@linutronix.de
There is no reason to scan builtin/initrd microcode on each AP.
Cache the builtin/initrd microcode in an early initcall so that the
early AP loader can utilize the cache.
The existing fs initcall which invoked save_microcode_in_initrd_amd() is
still required to maintain the initrd_gone flag. Rename it accordingly.
This will be removed once the AP loader code is converted to use the
cache.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211723.187566507@linutronix.de
Microcode is applied on the APs during early bringup. There is no point
in trying to apply the microcode again during the hotplug operations and
neither at the point where the microcode device is initialized.
Collect CPU info and microcode revision in setup_online_cpu() for now.
This will move to the CPU hotplug callback later.
[ bp: Leave the starting notifier for the following scenario:
- boot, late load, suspend to disk, resume
without the starting notifier, only the last core manages to update the
microcode upon resume:
# rdmsr -a 0x8b
10000bf
10000bf
10000bf
10000bf
10000bf
10000dc <----
This is on an AMD F10h machine.
For the future, one should check whether potential unification of
the CPU init path could cover the resume path too so that this can
be simplified even more.
tglx: This is caused by the odd handling of APs which try to find the
microcode blob in builtin or initrd instead of caching the microcode
blob during early init before the APs are brought up. Will be cleaned
up in a later step. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211723.018821624@linutronix.de
There are situations where the late microcode is loaded into memory but
is not applied:
1) The rendezvous fails
2) The microcode is rejected by the CPUs
If any of this happens then the pointer which was updated at firmware
load time is stale and subsequent CPU hotplug operations either fail to
update or create inconsistent microcode state.
Save the loaded microcode in a separate pointer before the late load is
attempted and when successful, update the hotplug pointer accordingly
via a new microcode_ops callback.
Remove the pointless fallback in the loader to a microcode pointer which
is never populated.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115902.505491309@linutronix.de
The early loading code is overly complicated:
- It scans the builtin/initrd for microcode not only on the BSP, but also
on all APs during early boot and then later in the boot process it
scans again to duplicate and save the microcode before initrd goes
away.
That's a pointless exercise because this can be simply done before
bringing up the APs when the memory allocator is up and running.
- Saving the microcode from within the scan loop is completely
non-obvious and a left over of the microcode cache.
This can be done at the call site now which makes it obvious.
Rework the code so that only the BSP scans the builtin/initrd microcode
once during early boot and save it away in an early initcall for later
use.
[ bp: Test and fold in a fix from tglx ontop which handles the need to
distinguish what save_microcode() does depending on when it is
called:
- when on the BSP during early load, it needs to find a newer
revision than the one currently loaded on the BSP
- later, before SMP init, it still runs on the BSP and gets the BSP
revision just loaded and uses that revision to know which patch
to save for the APs. For that it needs to find the exact one as
on the BSP.
]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211722.629085215@linutronix.de
Mixed steppings aren't supported on Intel CPUs. Only one microcode patch
is required for the entire system. The caching of microcode blobs which
match the family and model is therefore pointless and in fact is
dysfunctional as CPU hotplug updates use only a single microcode blob,
i.e. the one where *intel_ucode_patch points to.
Remove the microcode cache and make it an AMD local feature.
[ tglx:
- save only at the end. Otherwise random microcode ends up in the
pointer for early loading
- free the ucode patch pointer in save_microcode_patch() only
after kmemdup() has succeeded, as reported by Andrew Cooper ]
Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211722.404362809@linutronix.de
32-bit loads microcode before paging is enabled. The commit which
introduced that has zero justification in the changelog. The cover
letter has slightly more content, but it does not give any technical
justification either:
"The problem in current microcode loading method is that we load a
microcode way, way too late; ideally we should load it before turning
paging on. This may only be practical on 32 bits since we can't get
to 64-bit mode without paging on, but we should still do it as early
as at all possible."
Handwaving word salad with zero technical content.
Someone claimed in an offlist conversation that this is required for
curing the ATOM erratum AAE44/AAF40/AAG38/AAH41. That erratum requires
an microcode update in order to make the usage of PSE safe. But during
early boot, PSE is completely irrelevant and it is evaluated way later.
Neither is it relevant for the AP on single core HT enabled CPUs as the
microcode loading on the AP is not doing anything.
On dual core CPUs there is a theoretical problem if a split of an
executable large page between enabling paging including PSE and loading
the microcode happens. But that's only theoretical, it's practically
irrelevant because the affected dual core CPUs are 64bit enabled and
therefore have paging and PSE enabled before loading the microcode on
the second core. So why would it work on 64-bit but not on 32-bit?
The erratum:
"AAG38 Code Fetch May Occur to Incorrect Address After a Large Page is
Split Into 4-Kbyte Pages
Problem: If software clears the PS (page size) bit in a present PDE
(page directory entry), that will cause linear addresses mapped through
this PDE to use 4-KByte pages instead of using a large page after old
TLB entries are invalidated. Due to this erratum, if a code fetch uses
this PDE before the TLB entry for the large page is invalidated then it
may fetch from a different physical address than specified by either the
old large page translation or the new 4-KByte page translation. This
erratum may also cause speculative code fetches from incorrect addresses."
The practical relevance for this is exactly zero because there is no
splitting of large text pages during early boot-time, i.e. between paging
enable and microcode loading, and neither during CPU hotplug.
IOW, this load microcode before paging enable is yet another voodoo
programming solution in search of a problem. What's worse is that it causes
at least two serious problems:
1) When stackprotector is enabled, the microcode loader code has the
stackprotector mechanics enabled. The read from the per CPU variable
__stack_chk_guard is always accessing the virtual address either
directly on UP or via %fs on SMP. In physical address mode this
results in an access to memory above 3GB. So this works by chance as
the hardware returns the same value when there is no RAM at this
physical address. When there is RAM populated above 3G then the read
is by chance the same as nothing changes that memory during the very
early boot stage. That's not necessarily true during runtime CPU
hotplug.
2) When function tracing is enabled, the relevant microcode loader
functions and the functions invoked from there will call into the
tracing code and evaluate global and per CPU variables in physical
address mode. What could potentially go wrong?
Cure this and move the microcode loading after the early paging enable, use
the new temporary initrd mapping and remove the gunk in the microcode
loader which is required to handle physical address mode.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211722.348298216@linutronix.de
There is no reason to expose all of this globally. Move everything which is
not required outside of the microcode specific code to local header files
and into the respective source files.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230812195727.952876381@linutronix.de
fe055896c0 ("x86/microcode: Merge the early microcode loader") left this
needlessly public. Git archaeology provided by Borislav.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230812195727.834943153@linutronix.de
Currently vendor specific headers are included explicitly when used in
common code. Instead, include the vendor specific headers in
microcode.h, and include that in all usages.
No functional change.
Suggested-by: Boris Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230812195727.776541545@linutronix.de
microcode_mutex is only used by reload_store(). It has a comment saying
"to synchronize with each other". Other user of this mutex have been
removed in the commits
181b6f40e9 ("x86/microcode: Rip out the OLD_INTERFACE").
b6f86689d5 ("x86/microcode: Rip out the subsys interface gunk")
The sysfs interface does not need additional synchronisation vs itself
because it is provided as kernfs_ops::mutex which is acquired in
kernfs_fop_write_iter().
Remove the superfluous microcode_mutex.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230804075853.JF_n6GXC@linutronix.de
Load straight from the containers (initrd or builtin, for example).
There's no need to cache the patch per node.
This even simplifies the code a bit with the opportunity for more
cleanups later.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230720202813.3269888-1-john.allen@amd.com
Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-9-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Return an error from the late loading function which is run on each CPU
only when an error has actually been encountered during the update.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230130161709.11615-5-bp@alien8.de
Microcode gets reloaded late only if "1" is written to the reload file.
However, the code silently treats any other unsigned integer as a
successful write even though no actions are performed to load microcode.
Make the loader more strict to accept only "1" as a trigger value and
return an error otherwise.
[ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230130213955.6046-3-ashok.raj@intel.com
During late microcode loading, the "Reload completed" message is issued
unconditionally, regardless of success or failure.
Adjust the message to report the result of the update.
[ bp: Massage. ]
Fixes: 9bd681251b ("x86/microcode: Announce reload operation's completion")
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/874judpqqd.ffs@tglx/
The kernel caches each CPU's feature bits at boot in an x86_capability[]
structure. However, the capabilities in the BSP's copy can be turned off
as a result of certain command line parameters or configuration
restrictions, for example the SGX bit. This can cause a mismatch when
comparing the values before and after the microcode update.
Another example is X86_FEATURE_SRBDS_CTRL which gets added only after
microcode update:
--- cpuid.before 2023-01-21 14:54:15.652000747 +0100
+++ cpuid.after 2023-01-21 14:54:26.632001024 +0100
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ CPU:
0x00000004 0x04: eax=0x00000000 ebx=0x00000000 ecx=0x00000000 edx=0x00000000
0x00000005 0x00: eax=0x00000040 ebx=0x00000040 ecx=0x00000003 edx=0x11142120
0x00000006 0x00: eax=0x000027f7 ebx=0x00000002 ecx=0x00000001 edx=0x00000000
- 0x00000007 0x00: eax=0x00000000 ebx=0x029c6fbf ecx=0x40000000 edx=0xbc002400
+ 0x00000007 0x00: eax=0x00000000 ebx=0x029c6fbf ecx=0x40000000 edx=0xbc002e00
^^^
and which proves for a gazillionth time that late loading is a bad bad
idea.
microcode_check() is called after an update to report any previously
cached CPUID bits which might have changed due to the update.
Therefore, store the cached CPU caps before the update and compare them
with the CPU caps after the microcode update has succeeded.
Thus, the comparison is done between the CPUID *hardware* bits before
and after the upgrade instead of using the cached, possibly runtime
modified values in BSP's boot_cpu_data copy.
As a result, false warnings about CPUID bits changes are avoided.
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- Massage.
- Add SRBDS_CTRL example.
- Add kernel-doc.
- Incorporate forgotten review feedback from dhansen.
]
Fixes: 1008c52c09 ("x86/CPU: Add a microcode loader callback")
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230109153555.4986-3-ashok.raj@intel.com
Add a parameter to store CPU capabilities before performing a microcode
update so that CPU capabilities can be compared before and after update.
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Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230109153555.4986-2-ashok.raj@intel.com
Use DEVICE_ATTR_RO() helper instead of open-coded DEVICE_ATTR(),
which makes the code a bit shorter and easier to read.
No change in functionality.
Signed-off-by: Guangju Wang[baidu] <wgj900@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230118023554.1898-1-wgj900@163.com
request_microcode_fw() can always request firmware now so drop this
superfluous argument.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221028142638.28498-4-bp@alien8.de
Get rid of all the IPI-sending functions and their wrappers and use
those which are supposed to be called on each CPU.
Thus:
- microcode_init_cpu() gets called on each CPU on init, applying any new
microcode that the driver might've found on the filesystem.
- mc_cpu_starting() simply tries to apply cached microcode as this is
the cpuhp starting callback which gets called on CPU resume too.
Even if the driver init function is a late initcall, there is no
filesystem by then (not even a hdd driver has been loaded yet) so a new
firmware load attempt cannot simply be done.
It is pointless anyway - for that there's late loading if one really
needs it.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221028142638.28498-3-bp@alien8.de
This is a left-over from the old days when CPU hotplug wasn't as robust
as it is now. Currently, microcode gets loaded early on the CPU init
path and there's no need to attempt to load it again, which that subsys
interface callback is doing.
The only other thing that the subsys interface init path was doing is
adding the
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/microcode/
hierarchy.
So add a function which gets called on each CPU after all the necessary
driver setup has happened. Use schedule_on_each_cpu() which can block
because the sysfs creating code does kmem_cache_zalloc() which can block
too and the initial version of this where it did that setup in an IPI
handler of on_each_cpu() can cause a deadlock of the sort:
lock(fs_reclaim);
<Interrupt>
lock(fs_reclaim);
as the IPI handler runs in IRQ context.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221028142638.28498-2-bp@alien8.de
Print both old and new versions of microcode after a reload is complete
because knowing the previous microcode version is sometimes important
from a debugging perspective.
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Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220829181030.722891-1-ashok.raj@intel.com
c93dc84cbe ("perf/x86: Add a microcode revision check for SNB-PEBS")
checks whether the microcode revision has fixed PEBS issues.
This can happen either:
1. At PEBS init time, where the early microcode has been loaded already
2. During late loading, in the microcode_check() callback.
So remove the unnecessary call in the microcode loader init routine.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220525161232.14924-5-bp@alien8.de
Warn before it is attempted and taint the kernel. Late loading microcode
can lead to malfunction of the kernel when the microcode update changes
behaviour. There is no way for the kernel to determine whether its safe or
not.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220525161232.14924-4-bp@alien8.de
It is dangerous and it should not be used anyway - there's a nice early
loading already.
Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220525161232.14924-3-bp@alien8.de
When resuming from system sleep state, restore_processor_state()
restores the boot CPU MSRs. These MSRs could be emulated by microcode.
If microcode is not loaded yet, writing to emulated MSRs leads to
unchecked MSR access error:
...
PM: Calling lapic_suspend+0x0/0x210
unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x10f (tried to write 0x0...0) at rIP: ... (native_write_msr)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? restore_processor_state
x86_acpi_suspend_lowlevel
acpi_suspend_enter
suspend_devices_and_enter
pm_suspend.cold
state_store
kobj_attr_store
sysfs_kf_write
kernfs_fop_write_iter
new_sync_write
vfs_write
ksys_write
__x64_sys_write
do_syscall_64
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
RIP: 0033:0x7fda13c260a7
To ensure microcode emulated MSRs are available for restoration, load
the microcode on the boot CPU before restoring these MSRs.
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Fixes: e2a1256b17 ("x86/speculation: Restore speculation related MSRs during S3 resume")
Reported-by: Kyle D. Pelton <kyle.d.pelton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Kyle D. Pelton <kyle.d.pelton@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215841
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4350dfbf785cd482d3fafa72b2b49c83102df3ce.1650386317.git.pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com
The microcode loader has been looping through __start_builtin_fw down to
__end_builtin_fw to look for possibly built-in firmware for microcode
updates.
Now that the firmware loader code has exported an API for looping
through the kernel's built-in firmware section, use it and drop the x86
implementation in favor.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211021155843.1969401-4-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The functions get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus() have been
deprecated during the CPU hotplug rework. They map directly to
cpus_read_lock() and cpus_read_unlock().
Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions with the official version.
The behavior remains unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210803141621.780504-9-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Currently, the late microcode loading mechanism checks whether any CPUs
are offlined, and, in such a case, aborts the load attempt.
However, this must be done before the kernel caches new microcode from
the filesystem. Otherwise, when offlined CPUs are onlined later, those
cores are going to be updated through the CPU hotplug notifier callback
with the new microcode, while CPUs previously onine will continue to run
with the older microcode.
For example:
Turn off one core (2 threads):
echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online
echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
Install the ucode fails because a primary SMT thread is offline:
cp intel-ucode/06-8e-09 /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload
bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
Turn the core back on
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep microcode
microcode : 0x30
microcode : 0xde
microcode : 0x30
microcode : 0xde
The rationale for why the update is aborted when at least one primary
thread is offline is because even if that thread is soft-offlined
and idle, it will still have to participate in broadcasted MCE's
synchronization dance or enter SMM, and in both examples it will execute
instructions so it better have the same microcode revision as the other
cores.
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this. ]
Fixes: 30ec26da99 ("x86/microcode: Do not upload microcode if CPUs are offline")
Signed-off-by: Otavio Pontes <otavio.pontes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210319165515.9240-2-otavio.pontes@intel.com
