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x86/CPU: Check CPU feature bits after microcode upgrade
authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:26:40 +0000 (12:26 +0100)
committerThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:06:42 +0000 (10:06 -0300)
commit6b697cd844300d301289dea3cf532d0b27bef2a9
tree9f113f13f02e81cdd007dc30b0f0906fc94abda6
parent192f3c3b787520c8d0a0006e9a2cb3af697c81eb
x86/CPU: Check CPU feature bits after microcode upgrade

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1763366
commit 42ca8082e260dcfd8afa2afa6ec1940b9d41724c upstream.

With some microcode upgrades, new CPUID features can become visible on
the CPU. Check what the kernel has mirrored now and issue a warning
hinting at possible things the user/admin can do to make use of the
newly visible features.

Originally-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180216112640.11554-4-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c