Patch in Fixes: causes the usual:
unchecked MSR access error: RDMSR from 0x17 at ... (intel_get_platform_id)
Call Trace:
early_init_intel
early_cpu_init
setup_arch
_printk
start_kernel
x86_64_start_reservations
x86_64_start_kernel
common_startup_64
because the kernel is booted in a guest.
In order to avoid it, this MSR access needs to be prevented when running
virtualized. That is usually done by checking X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR but
for this particular case it is too early yet.
The platform ID needs to be read as early as when microcode is loaded on
the BSP:
load_ucode_bsp ... -> get_microcode_blob ... -> intel_find_matching_signature
and by that time, CPUID leafs haven't been parsed yet.
The microcode loader already has logic to check early whether the kernel
is running virtualized so make that globally available to arch/x86/. The
query whether running virtualized is getting more and more prominent in
recent times so might as well make it an arch-global var which the rest
of the code can use.
Fixes: d8630b67ca ("x86/cpu: Add platform ID to CPU info structure")
Reported-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260430020953.1405535-1-binbin.wu@linux.intel.com
Pull SoC driver updates from Arnd Bergmann:
"This is the first half of the driver changes:
- A treewide interface change to the "syscore" operations for power
management, as a preparation for future Tegra specific changes
- Reset controller updates with added drivers for LAN969x, eic770 and
RZ/G3S SoCs
- Protection of system controller registers on Renesas and Google
SoCs, to prevent trivially triggering a system crash from e.g.
debugfs access
- soc_device identification updates on Nvidia, Exynos and Mediatek
- debugfs support in the ST STM32 firewall driver
- Minor updates for SoC drivers on AMD/Xilinx, Renesas, Allwinner, TI
- Cleanups for memory controller support on Nvidia and Renesas"
* tag 'soc-drivers-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: (114 commits)
memory: tegra186-emc: Fix missing put_bpmp
Documentation: reset: Remove reset_controller_add_lookup()
reset: fix BIT macro reference
reset: rzg2l-usbphy-ctrl: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() bug in probe
reset: th1520: Support reset controllers in more subsystems
reset: th1520: Prepare for supporting multiple controllers
dt-bindings: reset: thead,th1520-reset: Add controllers for more subsys
dt-bindings: reset: thead,th1520-reset: Remove non-VO-subsystem resets
reset: remove legacy reset lookup code
clk: davinci: psc: drop unused reset lookup
reset: rzg2l-usbphy-ctrl: Add support for RZ/G3S SoC
reset: rzg2l-usbphy-ctrl: Add support for USB PWRRDY
dt-bindings: reset: renesas,rzg2l-usbphy-ctrl: Document RZ/G3S support
reset: eswin: Add eic7700 reset driver
dt-bindings: reset: eswin: Documentation for eic7700 SoC
reset: sparx5: add LAN969x support
dt-bindings: reset: microchip: Add LAN969x support
soc: rockchip: grf: Add select correct PWM implementation on RK3368
soc/tegra: pmc: Add USB wake events for Tegra234
amba: tegra-ahb: Fix device leak on SMMU enable
...
Several drivers can benefit from registering per-instance data along
with the syscore operations. To achieve this, move the modifiable fields
out of the syscore_ops structure and into a separate struct syscore that
can be registered with the framework. Add a void * driver data field for
drivers to store contextual data that will be passed to the syscore ops.
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) <rafael@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Fix section mismatch warning reported by modpost:
.text:early_parse_cmdline() -> .init.data:boot_command_line
The function early_parse_cmdline() is only called during init and accesses
init data, so mark it __init to match its usage.
[ bp: This happens only when the toolchain fails to inline the function and
I haven't been able to reproduce it with any toolchain I'm using. Patch is
obviously correct regardless. ]
Signed-off-by: Yu Peng <pengyu@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/all/20251030123757.1410904-1-pengyu@kylinos.cn
As microcode patch sizes continue to grow, late-loading latency spikes can
lead to timeouts and disruptions in running workloads. This trend of
increasing patch sizes is expected to continue, so a foundational solution is
needed to address the issue.
To mitigate the problem, introduce a microcode staging feature. This option
processes most of the microcode update (excluding activation) on
a non-critical path, allowing CPUs to remain operational during the majority
of the update. By offloading work from the critical path, staging can
significantly reduce latency spikes.
Integrate staging as a preparatory step in late-loading. Introduce a new
callback for staging, which is invoked at the beginning of
load_late_stop_cpus(), before CPUs enter the rendezvous phase.
Staging follows an opportunistic model:
* If successful, it reduces CPU rendezvous time
* Even though it fails, the process falls back to the legacy path to
finish the loading process but with potentially higher latency.
Extend struct microcode_ops to incorporate staging properties, which will be
implemented in the vendor code separately.
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Anselm Busse <abusse@amazon.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250320234104.8288-1-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
Instead of adding ad-hoc debugging glue to the microcode loader each
time I need it, add debugging functionality which is not built by
default.
Simulate all patch handling the loader does except the actual loading of
the microcode patch into the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250820135043.19048-3-bp@kernel.org
Downloading firmware needs a device to hang off of, and so a platform device
seemed like the simplest way to do this. Now that we have a faux device
interface, use that instead as this "microcode device" is not anything
resembling a platform device at all.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/2025070121-omission-small-9308@gregkh
Prepare to resolve conflicts with an upstream series of fixes that conflict
with pending x86 changes:
6f5bf947ba Merge tag 'its-for-linus-20250509' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Consolidate the whole logic which determines whether the microcode loader
should be enabled or not into a single function and call it everywhere.
Well, almost everywhere - not in mk_early_pgtbl_32() because there the kernel
is running without paging enabled and checking dis_ucode_ldr et al would
require physical addresses and uglification of the code.
But since this is 32-bit, the easier thing to do is to simply map the initrd
unconditionally especially since that mapping is getting removed later anyway
by zap_early_initrd_mapping() and avoid the uglification.
In doing so, address the issue of old 486er machines without CPUID
support, not booting current kernels.
[ mingo: Fix no previous prototype for ‘microcode_loader_disabled’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] ]
Fixes: 4c585af718 ("x86/boot/32: Temporarily map initrd for microcode loading")
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CANpbe9Wm3z8fy9HbgS8cuhoj0TREYEEkBipDuhgkWFvqX0UoVQ@mail.gmail.com
After
6f059e634dcd("x86/microcode: Clarify the late load logic"),
if the load is up-to-date, the AMD side returns UCODE_OK which leads to
load_late_locked() returning -EBADFD.
Handle UCODE_OK in the switch case to avoid this error.
[ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Fixes: 6f059e634d ("x86/microcode: Clarify the late load logic")
Signed-off-by: Annie Li <jiayanli@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250430053424.77438-1-jiayanli@google.com
The AMD side of the loader issues the microcode revision for each
logical thread on the system, which can become really noisy on huge
machines. And doing that doesn't make a whole lot of sense - the
microcode revision is already in /proc/cpuinfo.
So in case one is interested in the theoretical support of mixed silicon
steppings on AMD, one can check there.
What is also missing on the AMD side - something which people have
requested before - is showing the microcode revision the CPU had
*before* the early update.
So abstract that up in the main code and have the BSP on each vendor
provide those revision numbers.
Then, dump them only once on driver init.
On Intel, do not dump the patch date - it is not needed.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wg=%2B8rceshMkB4VnKxmRccVLtBLPBawnewZuuqyx5U=3A@mail.gmail.com
First of all, the print is useless. The driver will either load and say
which microcode revision the machine has or issue an error.
Then, the version number is meaningless and actively confusing, as Yazen
mentioned recently: when a subset of patches are backported to a distro
kernel, one can't assume the driver version is the same as the upstream
one. And besides, the version number of the loader hasn't been used and
incremented for a long time. So drop it.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231115210212.9981-2-bp@alien8.de
Applying microcode late can be fatal for the running kernel when the
update changes functionality which is in use already in a non-compatible
way, e.g. by removing a CPUID bit.
There is no way for admins which do not have access to the vendors deep
technical support to decide whether late loading of such a microcode is
safe or not.
Intel has added a new field to the microcode header which tells the
minimal microcode revision which is required to be active in the CPU in
order to be safe.
Provide infrastructure for handling this in the core code and a command
line switch which allows to enforce it.
If the update is considered safe the kernel is not tainted and the annoying
warning message not emitted. If it's enforced and the currently loaded
microcode revision is not safe for late loading then the load is aborted.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211724.079611170@linutronix.de
Offline CPUs need to be parked in a safe loop when microcode update is
in progress on the primary CPU. Currently, offline CPUs are parked in
mwait_play_dead(), and for Intel CPUs, its not a safe instruction,
because the MWAIT instruction can be patched in the new microcode update
that can cause instability.
- Add a new microcode state 'UCODE_OFFLINE' to report status on per-CPU
basis.
- Force NMI on the offline CPUs.
Wake up offline CPUs while the update is in progress and then return
them back to mwait_play_dead() after microcode update is complete.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.660850472@linutronix.de
The wait for control loop in which the siblings are waiting for the
microcode update on the primary thread must be protected against
instrumentation as instrumentation can end up in #INT3, #DB or #PF,
which then returns with IRET. That IRET reenables NMI which is the
opposite of what the NMI rendezvous is trying to achieve.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.545969323@linutronix.de
stop_machine() does not prevent the spin-waiting sibling from handling
an NMI, which is obviously violating the whole concept of rendezvous.
Implement a static branch right in the beginning of the NMI handler
which is nopped out except when enabled by the late loading mechanism.
The late loader enables the static branch before stop_machine() is
invoked. Each CPU has an nmi_enable in its control structure which
indicates whether the CPU should go into the update routine.
This is required to bridge the gap between enabling the branch and
actually being at the point where it is required to enter the loader
wait loop.
Each CPU which arrives in the stopper thread function sets that flag and
issues a self NMI right after that. If the NMI function sees the flag
clear, it returns. If it's set it clears the flag and enters the
rendezvous.
This is safe against a real NMI which hits in between setting the flag
and sending the NMI to itself. The real NMI will be swallowed by the
microcode update and the self NMI will then let stuff continue.
Otherwise this would end up with a spurious NMI.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.489900814@linutronix.de
The current all in one code is unreadable and really not suited for
adding future features like uniform loading with package or system
scope.
Provide a set of new control functions which split the handling of the
primary and secondary CPUs. These will replace the current rendezvous
all in one function in the next step. This is intentionally a separate
change because diff makes an complete unreadable mess otherwise.
So the flow separates the primary and the secondary CPUs into their own
functions which use the control field in the per CPU ucode_ctrl struct.
primary() secondary()
wait_for_all() wait_for_all()
apply_ucode() wait_for_release()
release() apply_ucode()
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.377922731@linutronix.de
Add a per CPU control field to ucode_ctrl and define constants for it
which are going to be used to control the loading state machine.
In theory this could be a global control field, but a global control does
not cover the following case:
15 primary CPUs load microcode successfully
1 primary CPU fails and returns with an error code
With global control the sibling of the failed CPU would either try again or
the whole operation would be aborted with the consequence that the 15
siblings do not invoke the apply path and end up with inconsistent software
state. The result in dmesg would be inconsistent too.
There are two additional fields added and initialized:
ctrl_cpu and secondaries. ctrl_cpu is the CPU number of the primary thread
for now, but with the upcoming uniform loading at package or system scope
this will be one CPU per package or just one CPU. Secondaries hands the
control CPU a CPU mask which will be required to release the secondary CPUs
out of the wait loop.
Preparatory change for implementing a properly split control flow for
primary and secondary CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.319959519@linutronix.de
