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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 30 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index 824aee0117bb..348cf4821240 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -1749,3 +1749,33 @@ static int __init init_cpu_syscore(void) return 0; } core_initcall(init_cpu_syscore); + +/* + * The microcode loader calls this upon late microcode load to recheck features, + * only when microcode has been updated. Caller holds microcode_mutex and CPU + * hotplug lock. + */ +void microcode_check(void) +{ + struct cpuinfo_x86 info; + + perf_check_microcode(); + + /* Reload CPUID max function as it might've changed. */ + info.cpuid_level = cpuid_eax(0); + + /* + * Copy all capability leafs to pick up the synthetic ones so that + * memcmp() below doesn't fail on that. The ones coming from CPUID will + * get overwritten in get_cpu_cap(). + */ + memcpy(&info.x86_capability, &boot_cpu_data.x86_capability, sizeof(info.x86_capability)); + + get_cpu_cap(&info); + + if (!memcmp(&info.x86_capability, &boot_cpu_data.x86_capability, sizeof(info.x86_capability))) + return; + + pr_warn("x86/CPU: CPU features have changed after loading microcode, but might not take effect.\n"); + pr_warn("x86/CPU: Please consider either early loading through initrd/built-in or a potential BIOS update.\n"); +} |