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[tip:x86/mm] x86/cpu/AMD: Make the microcode level available earlier in the boot

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  [tip:x86/mm] x86/cpu/AMD: Make the microcode level available  earlier in the boot tip-bot for Tom Lendacky <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2017-07-18 13:10 +0200

#1690153 — [tip:x86/mm] x86/cpu/AMD: Make the microcode level available earlier in the boot

Commit-ID:  f655e6e6b992a2fb0d0334db2620607b98df39e7
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/f655e6e6b992a2fb0d0334db2620607b98df39e7
Author:     Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 16:10:23 -0500
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:38:03 +0200

x86/cpu/AMD: Make the microcode level available earlier in the boot

Move the setting of the cpuinfo_x86.microcode field from amd_init() to
early_amd_init() so that it is available earlier in the boot process. This
avoids having to read MSR_AMD64_PATCH_LEVEL directly during early boot.

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Toshimitsu Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7b7525fa12593dac5f4b01fcc25c95f97e93862f.1500319216.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
index 4d87950..f22fd4e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -547,8 +547,12 @@ static void bsp_init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 
 static void early_init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 {
+	u32 dummy;
+
 	early_init_amd_mc(c);
 
+	rdmsr_safe(MSR_AMD64_PATCH_LEVEL, &c->microcode, &dummy);
+
 	/*
 	 * c->x86_power is 8000_0007 edx. Bit 8 is TSC runs at constant rate
 	 * with P/T states and does not stop in deep C-states
@@ -750,8 +754,6 @@ static void init_amd_bd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 
 static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 {
-	u32 dummy;
-
 	early_init_amd(c);
 
 	/*
@@ -813,8 +815,6 @@ static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 	if (c->x86 > 0x11)
 		set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_ARAT);
 
-	rdmsr_safe(MSR_AMD64_PATCH_LEVEL, &c->microcode, &dummy);
-
 	/* 3DNow or LM implies PREFETCHW */
 	if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_3DNOWPREFETCH))
 		if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_3DNOW) || cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_LM))

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