From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756564Ab0EQXGr (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 19:06:47 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:48866 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756407Ab0EQXGq (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 19:06:46 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 01:06:28 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton Subject: [GIT PULL] x86/microcode changes for v2.6.35 Message-ID: <20100517230628.GA5703@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus, Please pull the latest x86-microcode-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-microcode-for-linus Thanks, Ingo ------------------> Arnd Bergmann (1): x86/microcode: Use nonseekable_open() Dimitri Sivanich (1): x86: Improve Intel microcode loader performance arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c | 4 ++-- arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c index cceb5bc..2cd8c54 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c @@ -201,9 +201,9 @@ static int do_microcode_update(const void __user *buf, size_t size) return error; } -static int microcode_open(struct inode *unused1, struct file *unused2) +static int microcode_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { - return capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) ? 0 : -EPERM; + return capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) ? nonseekable_open(inode, file) : -EPERM; } static ssize_t microcode_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c index 85a343e..3561702 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c @@ -343,10 +343,11 @@ static enum ucode_state generic_load_microcode(int cpu, void *data, size_t size, int (*get_ucode_data)(void *, const void *, size_t)) { struct ucode_cpu_info *uci = ucode_cpu_info + cpu; - u8 *ucode_ptr = data, *new_mc = NULL, *mc; + u8 *ucode_ptr = data, *new_mc = NULL, *mc = NULL; int new_rev = uci->cpu_sig.rev; unsigned int leftover = size; enum ucode_state state = UCODE_OK; + unsigned int curr_mc_size = 0; while (leftover) { struct microcode_header_intel mc_header; @@ -361,9 +362,15 @@ static enum ucode_state generic_load_microcode(int cpu, void *data, size_t size, break; } - mc = vmalloc(mc_size); - if (!mc) - break; + /* For performance reasons, reuse mc area when possible */ + if (!mc || mc_size > curr_mc_size) { + if (mc) + vfree(mc); + mc = vmalloc(mc_size); + if (!mc) + break; + curr_mc_size = mc_size; + } if (get_ucode_data(mc, ucode_ptr, mc_size) || microcode_sanity_check(mc) < 0) { @@ -376,13 +383,16 @@ static enum ucode_state generic_load_microcode(int cpu, void *data, size_t size, vfree(new_mc); new_rev = mc_header.rev; new_mc = mc; - } else - vfree(mc); + mc = NULL; /* trigger new vmalloc */ + } ucode_ptr += mc_size; leftover -= mc_size; } + if (mc) + vfree(mc); + if (leftover) { if (new_mc) vfree(new_mc);