From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Josh Poimboeuf , Borislav Petkov , David Woodhouse Subject: [PATCH 4.9 107/107] x86/microcode: Allow late microcode loading with SMT disabled Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:18:10 +0200 Message-Id: <20180814171527.116006902@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180814171520.883143803@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180814171520.883143803@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Josh Poimboeuf commit 07d981ad4cf1e78361c6db1c28ee5ba105f96cc1 upstream The kernel unnecessarily prevents late microcode loading when SMT is disabled. It should be safe to allow it if all the primary threads are online. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c @@ -386,12 +386,20 @@ static struct platform_device *microcode static int check_online_cpus(void) { - if (num_online_cpus() == num_present_cpus()) - return 0; + unsigned int cpu; - pr_err("Not all CPUs online, aborting microcode update.\n"); + /* + * Make sure all CPUs are online. It's fine for SMT to be disabled if + * all the primary threads are still online. + */ + for_each_present_cpu(cpu) { + if (topology_is_primary_thread(cpu) && !cpu_online(cpu)) { + pr_err("Not all CPUs online, aborting microcode update.\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } + } - return -EINVAL; + return 0; } static int reload_for_cpu(int cpu)