x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading further with LLC size check
authorJia Zhang <zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com>
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 10:41:32 +0000 (11:41 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:46:14 +0000 (14:46 +0100)
commit8e292f88f756db5c19a1d4478a8e443687980949
tree8fd305d2aaedeab895d9a88a5501695bf6849d69
parent933e32f87f6e9e006d501e6cb6d46f912acb80f2
x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading further with LLC size check

commit 7e702d17ed138cf4ae7c00e8c00681ed464587c7 upstream.

Commit b94b73733171 ("x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading with a
revision check") reduced the impact of erratum BDF90 for Broadwell model
79.

The impact can be reduced further by checking the size of the last level
cache portion per core.

Tony: "The erratum says the problem only occurs on the large-cache SKUs.
So we only need to avoid the update if we are on a big cache SKU that is
also running old microcode."

For more details, see erratum BDF90 in document #334165 (Intel Xeon
Processor E7-8800/4800 v4 Product Family Specification Update) from
September 2017.

Fixes: b94b73733171 ("x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading with a revision check")
Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang <zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516321542-31161-1-git-send-email-zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c