x86/microcode/intel: Check microcode revision before updating sibling threads
authorAshok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:28:41 +0000 (11:28 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:32:22 +0000 (12:32 +0200)
commit170f8ec16c223c4e64cff971368fd5136d58dd69
tree1faf91519bed722fedb1cf877ae92eeffefb8bd3
parent22cc8816d013e6cf82e24af9ecaf3dde5800d1c8
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 <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
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
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c