From 97d70759908b6a94f3679ce38f2ec3e4da9f3a22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ashok Raj Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:28:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86/microcode/intel: Check microcode revision before updating sibling threads commit c182d2b7d0ca48e0d6ff16f7d883161238c447ed upstream. After updating microcode on one of the threads of a core, the other thread sibling automatically gets the update since the microcode resources on a hyperthreaded core are shared between the two threads. Check the microcode revision on the CPU before performing a microcode update and thus save us the WRMSR 0x79 because it is a particularly expensive operation. [ Borislav: Massage changelog and coding style. ] Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Tom Lendacky Tested-by: Ashok Raj Cc: Arjan Van De Ven Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519352533-15992-2-git-send-email-ashok.raj@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180228102846.13447-3-bp@alien8.de [bwh: Backported to 4.9: return 0 in this case] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c index af8fc3b..8faa5fa 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c @@ -617,6 +617,17 @@ static int apply_microcode_early(struct ucode_cpu_info *uci, bool early) if (!mc) return 0; + /* + * Save us the MSR write below - which is a particular expensive + * operation - when the other hyperthread has updated the microcode + * already. + */ + rev = intel_get_microcode_revision(); + if (rev >= mc->hdr.rev) { + uci->cpu_sig.rev = rev; + return 0; + } + /* write microcode via MSR 0x79 */ native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_UCODE_WRITE, (unsigned long)mc->bits); @@ -891,7 +902,7 @@ static int apply_microcode_intel(int cpu) { struct microcode_intel *mc; struct ucode_cpu_info *uci; - struct cpuinfo_x86 *c; + struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(cpu); static int prev_rev; u32 rev; @@ -912,6 +923,18 @@ static int apply_microcode_intel(int cpu) if (!get_matching_mc(mc, cpu)) return 0; + /* + * Save us the MSR write below - which is a particular expensive + * operation - when the other hyperthread has updated the microcode + * already. + */ + rev = intel_get_microcode_revision(); + if (rev >= mc->hdr.rev) { + uci->cpu_sig.rev = rev; + c->microcode = rev; + return 0; + } + /* write microcode via MSR 0x79 */ wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_UCODE_WRITE, (unsigned long)mc->bits); @@ -932,8 +955,6 @@ static int apply_microcode_intel(int cpu) prev_rev = rev; } - c = &cpu_data(cpu); - uci->cpu_sig.rev = rev; c->microcode = rev; -- 2.7.4