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SubjectRe: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896
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On 16/12/16 10:02, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 08:28:46AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> Not trying to load ucode in _any_ guest is an optimization only.
>
> Does the hunk below work too?

Without testing, but I doubt it is working. As pv guests aren't coming
through check_loader_disabled_bsp() at all I can't see why your patch
would work for dom0. Additionally I don't think you want to call
native_cpuid() if have_cpuid_p() returns false.

So I think you want a generic "platform_allows_ucode_load()" function
checking for support of cpuid and virtualization. This function should
be called both in check_loader_disabled_bsp() and
check_loader_disabled_ap() to bail out early.


Juergen

>
> I don't want to do hypervisor-specific solutions.
>
> ---
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
> index 6996413c78c3..54219f619205 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
> @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ struct cpu_info_ctx {
> static bool __init check_loader_disabled_bsp(void)
> {
> static const char *__dis_opt_str = "dis_ucode_ldr";
> + u32 a, b, c, d;
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> const char *cmdline = (const char *)__pa_nodebug(boot_command_line);
> @@ -91,6 +92,17 @@ static bool __init check_loader_disabled_bsp(void)
> if (cmdline_find_option_bool(cmdline, option))
> *res = true;
>
> + if (!have_cpuid_p())
> + *res = true;
> +
> + a = 1;
> + c = 0;
> + native_cpuid(&a, &b, &c, &d);
> +
> + /* CPUID(1).ECX[31]: reserved for hypervisor use */
> + if (c & BIT(31))
> + *res = true;
> +
> return *res;
> }
>
> @@ -121,9 +133,6 @@ void __init load_ucode_bsp(void)
> if (check_loader_disabled_bsp())
> return;
>
> - if (!have_cpuid_p())
> - return;
> -
> vendor = x86_cpuid_vendor();
> family = x86_cpuid_family();
>
> @@ -157,9 +166,6 @@ void load_ucode_ap(void)
> if (check_loader_disabled_ap())
> return;
>
> - if (!have_cpuid_p())
> - return;
> -
> vendor = x86_cpuid_vendor();
> family = x86_cpuid_family();
>
>

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