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Borislav Petkov c26665ab5c x86/microcode/intel: Drop stashed AP patch pointer optimization
This was meant to save us the scanning of the microcode containter in
the initrd since the first AP had already done that but it can also hurt
us:

Imagine a single hyperthreaded CPU (Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270, for
example) which updates the microcode on the BSP but since the microcode
engine is shared between the two threads, the update on CPU1 doesn't
happen because it has already happened on CPU0 and we don't find a newer
microcode revision on CPU1.

Which doesn't set the intel_ucode_patch pointer and at initrd
jettisoning time we don't save the microcode patch for later
application.

Now, when we suspend to RAM, the loaded microcode gets cleared so we
need to reload but there's no patch saved in the cache.

Removing the optimization fixes this issue and all is fine and dandy.

Fixes: 06b8534cb7 ("x86/microcode: Rework microcode loading")
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-2-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-01-23 09:39:55 +01:00
Documentation spi: Fixes for v4.10 2017-01-20 12:25:11 -08:00
arch x86/microcode/intel: Drop stashed AP patch pointer optimization 2017-01-23 09:39:55 +01:00
block blk-mq: Remove unused variable 2017-01-18 15:14:15 -07:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - Use heap buffer for acomp test input 2016-12-27 17:32:11 +08:00
drivers virtio, vhost: fixes, cleanups 2017-01-22 12:40:09 -08:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
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init cgroup: move CONFIG_SOCK_CGROUP_DATA to init/Kconfig 2017-01-11 09:47:10 -05:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
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sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.10 2017-01-11 19:49:27 +01:00
tools virtio, vhost: fixes, cleanups 2017-01-22 12:40:09 -08:00
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README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.