x86/CPU: Check CPU feature bits after microcode upgrade
authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:26:40 +0000 (12:26 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 17 Feb 2018 07:43:55 +0000 (08:43 +0100)
commit42ca8082e260dcfd8afa2afa6ec1940b9d41724c
tree6d2d1a2da924b9a2a72bfc1e32bc6f9bc0039c70
parent1008c52c09dcb23d93f8e0ea83a6246265d2cce0
x86/CPU: Check CPU feature bits after microcode upgrade

With some microcode upgrades, new CPUID features can become visible on
the CPU. Check what the kernel has mirrored now and issue a warning
hinting at possible things the user/admin can do to make use of the
newly visible features.

Originally-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180216112640.11554-4-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c