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* [PATCH v2 00/11] x86/microcode: Early load microcode
@ 2012-11-30  1:47 Fenghua Yu
  2012-11-30  1:47 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] Documentation/x86: " Fenghua Yu
                   ` (9 more replies)
  0 siblings, 10 replies; 127+ messages in thread
From: Fenghua Yu @ 2012-11-30  1:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: H Peter Anvin, Ingo Molnar, Thomas Gleixner, Asit K Mallick,
	Tigran Aivazian, Andreas Herrmann, Borislav Petkov, linux-kernel,
	x86
  Cc: Fenghua Yu

From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>

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.

Similarly, we should load the microcode update as early as possible during AP
bringup and when processors are brought back online after hotplug or S3/S4.

In order to do that, the microcode patch needs to be permanently present in
kernel memory.  Each individual patch is fairly small, so that is OK, but the
entire blob with support for each CPU is too big. Since only CPU's with same
model can be in the same platform, we store microcode with the same model as
BSP. Later on AP's can upload microcode from the saved microcodep patches.

Note, however, that Linux users have gotten used to being able to install a
microcode patch in the field without having a reboot; we support that model too.

v2: Detect vendor before loading microcode. Move some functions from
microcode_intel_early.c to microcode_intel_lib.c. Change some early loading
microcode dependencies in Kconfig. Reword doc.

Fenghua Yu (10):
  Documentation/x86: Early load microcode
  x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early load
    ucode
  x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early load ucode
  x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit
  x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit
  x86/smpboot.c: Early update ucode on AP
  x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to memory
  x86/Kconfig: Configurations to enable/disable the feature

 Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt   |   43 +++
 arch/x86/Kconfig                        |   18 ++
 arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h        |   23 ++
 arch/x86/include/asm/microcode_intel.h  |  106 ++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile                |    3 +
 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c                |    6 +
 arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S               |    6 +
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c        |    7 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core_early.c  |   70 +++++
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c       |  185 +-------------
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel_early.c |  438 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel_lib.c   |  174 ++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c               |    7 +
 arch/x86/mm/init.c                      |   10 +
 14 files changed, 915 insertions(+), 181 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/microcode_intel.h
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core_early.c
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel_early.c
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel_lib.c

-- 
1.7.2


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* [PATCH v5 05/12] x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode
@ 2012-12-21  7:44 Fenghua Yu
  2013-01-31 22:29 ` [tip:x86/microcode] " tip-bot for Fenghua Yu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 127+ messages in thread
From: Fenghua Yu @ 2012-12-21  7:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: H Peter Anvin, Ingo Molnar, Thomas Gleixner, Asit K Mallick,
	Tigran Aivazian, Yinghai Lu, Andreas Herrmann, Borislav Petkov,
	linux-kernel, x86
  Cc: Fenghua Yu

From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>

Define interfaces load_ucode_bsp() and load_ucode_ap() to load ucode on BSP and
AP in early boot time. These are generic interfaces. Internally they call
vendor specific implementations.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h       | 14 +++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core_early.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 90 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core_early.c

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h
index 43d921b..6825e2e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h
@@ -57,4 +57,18 @@ static inline struct microcode_ops * __init init_amd_microcode(void)
 static inline void __exit exit_amd_microcode(void) {}
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MICROCODE_EARLY
+#define MAX_UCODE_COUNT 128
+extern void __init load_ucode_bsp(void);
+extern __init void load_ucode_ap(void);
+extern int __init save_microcode_in_initrd(void);
+#else
+static inline void __init load_ucode_bsp(void) {}
+static inline __init void load_ucode_ap(void) {}
+static inline int __init save_microcode_in_initrd(void)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_MICROCODE_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core_early.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core_early.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..577db84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core_early.c
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+/*
+ *	X86 CPU microcode early update for Linux
+ *
+ *	Copyright (C) 2012 Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
+ *			   H Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
+ *
+ *	This driver allows to early upgrade microcode on Intel processors
+ *	belonging to IA-32 family - PentiumPro, Pentium II,
+ *	Pentium III, Xeon, Pentium 4, etc.
+ *
+ *	Reference: Section 9.11 of Volume 3, IA-32 Intel Architecture
+ *	Software Developer's Manual.
+ *
+ *	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ *	modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ *	as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ *	2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <asm/microcode_intel.h>
+#include <asm/processor.h>
+
+#define QCHAR(a, b, c, d) ((a) + ((b) << 8) + ((c) << 16) + ((d) << 24))
+#define CPUID_INTEL1 QCHAR('G', 'e', 'n', 'u')
+#define CPUID_INTEL2 QCHAR('i', 'n', 'e', 'I')
+#define CPUID_INTEL3 QCHAR('n', 't', 'e', 'l')
+#define CPUID_AMD1 QCHAR('A', 'u', 't', 'h')
+#define CPUID_AMD2 QCHAR('e', 'n', 't', 'i')
+#define CPUID_AMD3 QCHAR('c', 'A', 'M', 'D')
+
+#define CPUID_IS(a, b, c, ebx, ecx, edx)	\
+		(!((ebx ^ (a))|(edx ^ (b))|(ecx ^ (c))))
+
+/*
+ * In early loading microcode phase on BSP, boot_cpu_data is not set up yet.
+ * x86_vendor() gets vendor id for BSP.
+ *
+ * In 32 bit AP case, accessing boot_cpu_data needs linear address. To simplify
+ * coding, we still use x86_vendor() to get vendor id for AP.
+ *
+ * x86_vendor() gets vendor information directly through cpuid.
+ */
+static int __cpuinit x86_vendor(void)
+{
+	u32 eax = 0x00000000;
+	u32 ebx, ecx = 0, edx;
+
+	if (!have_cpuid_p())
+		return X86_VENDOR_UNKNOWN;
+
+	native_cpuid(&eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
+
+	if (CPUID_IS(CPUID_INTEL1, CPUID_INTEL2, CPUID_INTEL3, ebx, ecx, edx))
+		return X86_VENDOR_INTEL;
+
+	if (CPUID_IS(CPUID_AMD1, CPUID_AMD2, CPUID_AMD3, ebx, ecx, edx))
+		return X86_VENDOR_AMD;
+
+	return X86_VENDOR_UNKNOWN;
+}
+
+void __init load_ucode_bsp(void)
+{
+	int vendor = x86_vendor();
+
+	if (vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL)
+		load_ucode_intel_bsp();
+}
+
+void __cpuinit load_ucode_ap(void)
+{
+	int vendor = x86_vendor();
+
+	if (vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL)
+		load_ucode_intel_ap();
+}
-- 
1.8.0.1


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2012-12-11  3:55             ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-11  6:34               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-11  7:07                 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-11 14:57                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-11 16:46                     ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-11 16:48                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-11 17:00                         ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-11 17:06                           ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-11 17:15                             ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-11 17:26                               ` Yu, Fenghua
2012-12-11 17:38                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-11 23:53                                 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-11 23:57                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-12  0:27                                     ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-12  0:37                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-12  7:14                                         ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-12 10:26                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13  1:06                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-12  6:57                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-12 13:38                                         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-12 17:43                                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-13  5:12                                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-13  5:26                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-13  7:01                                               ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-13 15:01                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-13 19:13                                               ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-13 21:36                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-14  9:11                                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-14 18:16                                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-14 19:46                                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-14 20:04                                                       ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-14 20:08                                                         ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-14 20:14                                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-14 20:44                                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-15  7:57                                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-15 19:30                                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-15 20:55                                                               ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-15 21:31                                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-15 21:40                                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-15 22:13                                                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-15 22:17                                                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-15 23:15                                                                       ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-15 23:17                                                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-19 20:37                                                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-19 21:07                                                                             ` Jacob Shin
2012-12-19 21:48                                                                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-19 22:05                                                                                 ` Jacob Shin
2012-12-19 22:25                                                                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-19 22:47                                                                                     ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-19 22:59                                                                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-19 22:51                                                                                     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-19 22:59                                                                                       ` Jacob Shin
2012-12-19 23:03                                                                                         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-19 23:21                                                                                           ` Jacob Shin
2012-12-19 23:56                                                                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-19 23:22                                                                                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-19 23:40                                                                                             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-20  0:02                                                                                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-20  0:10                                                                                                 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-20  0:15                                                                                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-19 23:40                                                                                             ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-19 23:43                                                                                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-19 23:48                                                                                                 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-19 23:40                                                                                             ` Jacob Shin
2012-12-19 23:45                                                                                               ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-19 23:50                                                                                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-19 23:55                                                                                                 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-19 23:57                                                                                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-20  0:07                                                                                                 ` Jacob Shin
2012-12-20  0:24                                                                                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-20  0:29                                                                                                     ` Jacob Shin
2012-12-20  0:41                                                                                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-20  2:37                                                                                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-20  4:16                                                                                                         ` Jacob Shin
2012-12-20  4:21                                                                                                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-19 22:55                                                                                     ` Jacob Shin
2012-12-19 23:00                                                                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-19 23:17                                                                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-19 23:30                                                                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-19 23:37                                                                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-19 23:23                                                                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-16  2:09                                                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-16  5:17                                                                     ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-16  8:50                                                                       ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-17 22:47                                                                         ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-17 23:11                                                                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-17 23:26                                                                             ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-18  1:11                                                                               ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-18  1:51                                                                                 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-18  2:42                                                                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-14 20:10                                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-14 20:17                                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-14 20:52                                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-14 21:07                                                         ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-11 18:02                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-11 18:20                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-11 18:42                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-11 18:46                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-11 19:18                                       ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-11 19:33                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-30  1:47 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit Fenghua Yu
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