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authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2015-03-18 19:28:56 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-05-06 11:24:53 +0200
commit760d765b2bb662be177d4b5b271ced8debc803ac (patch)
treeae71bf65b3e8b389062a4988da7c8e821fa19a34 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c
parentda9b50765e6ea3e9113df3a14a63700e47a670b7 (diff)
x86/microcode: Parse built-in microcode early
Apparently, people do build microcode into the kernel image, i.e. CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y. Make that work in the early loader which is where microcode should be preferably loaded anyway. Note that you need to specify the microcode filename with the path relative to the toplevel firmware directory (the same like the late loading method) in CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=y so that early loader can find it. I.e., something like this (Intel variant): CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="intel-ucode/06-3a-09" CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware/" While at it, add me to the loader copyright boilerplate. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c23
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c
index 45881e92f1be..ccd474a7a59e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c
@@ -521,6 +521,23 @@ out:
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_mc_for_early);
#endif
+static bool __init load_builtin_intel_microcode(struct cpio_data *cp)
+{
+ u32 eax = 0x00000001, ebx, ecx = 0, edx;
+ int family, model, stepping;
+ char name[30];
+
+ native_cpuid(&eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
+
+ family = __x86_family(eax);
+ model = x86_model(eax);
+ stepping = eax & 0xf;
+
+ sprintf(name, "intel-ucode/%02x-%02x-%02x", family, model, stepping);
+
+ return get_builtin_firmware(cp, name);
+}
+
static __initdata char ucode_name[] = "kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin";
static __init enum ucode_state
scan_microcode(struct mc_saved_data *mc_saved_data, unsigned long *initrd,
@@ -539,8 +556,10 @@ scan_microcode(struct mc_saved_data *mc_saved_data, unsigned long *initrd,
cd.size = 0;
cd = find_cpio_data(p, (void *)start, size, &offset);
- if (!cd.data)
- return UCODE_ERROR;
+ if (!cd.data) {
+ if (!load_builtin_intel_microcode(&cd))
+ return UCODE_ERROR;
+ }
return get_matching_model_microcode(0, start, cd.data, cd.size,
mc_saved_data, initrd, uci);