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blobs loading to a non-critical path so that microcode loading latencies are kept at minimum. The actual "directing" the hardware to load microcode is the only step which is done on the critical path. This scheme is also opportunistic as in: on a failure, the machinery falls back to normal loading - Add the capability to the AMD side of the loader to select one of two per-family/model/stepping patches: one is pre-Entrysign and the other is post-Entrysign; with the goal to take care of machines which haven't updated their BIOS yet - something they should absolutely do as this is the only proper Entrysign fix - Other small cleanups and fixlets -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEEzv7L6UO9uDPlPSfHEsHwGGHeVUoFAmktjK4ACgkQEsHwGGHe VUqCzg/+NTMgw/cb6zvgXviUTTL62127q4YBr0G3AoNruYbWvdt65suK1pMoRUZL CDtflIjDTj8ZSIreXS6tUoFIAzsZUnPApUshHCXlHbK6hYbHDjQgkZme48P+AIqC kuP8zcqL0Epzv/Il/d9M8LEmP/0JUoACiibI5T0xMA5Ji9yw0njiHaHCBnrwXduy oNsTW8KSaGSaq+zbqa+cS7T06b6SNtUpAQyNSg4Jgj9u3+uPb3a9AfD81jGxUmYl SoM/gsiwYjujKV/ZAldnN6tOoRSECqeYLRT/J/Bbqe4zSM5gYh7TRg7N4AcZXKuY BLps8IbmiS6ZF2qziicJ7+zN35kXLeuVC+T4rq+IjvkTyH+eJsuGFnGYbXxCwV8A nkinSLtn6x0sebem/6H77OjNMLZU0zmLgWfiUfvgnXCErb7SZfs967aG8nxs5bDX CnEzS7/98sSkZm0yDSjp0TuXzo1PSGS9wcv30vOR4hClx42YmTZlBUJ5QHJQ9AB0 1PNmLptwUk9rorTemAzB3Cstm490U7BEd32Od6b+NiIyKogL7uPJKHsQ2Q/t07tw ubBm5nFzIhCXWz9v5q1fkvInKAXytHdIN4OnzOPw+7jHF95Vpa2o22OBWaBaCRex 96jCa4b6pPomxPD+LxdSSMtSihUa4PQz9VrrqnYn7vulumQ/YDo= =rxMs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.19_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 microcode loading updates from Borislav Petkov: - Add microcode staging support on Intel: it moves the sole microcode blobs loading to a non-critical path so that microcode loading latencies are kept at minimum. The actual "directing" the hardware to load microcode is the only step which is done on the critical path. This scheme is also opportunistic as in: on a failure, the machinery falls back to normal loading - Add the capability to the AMD side of the loader to select one of two per-family/model/stepping patches: one is pre-Entrysign and the other is post-Entrysign; with the goal to take care of machines which haven't updated their BIOS yet - something they should absolutely do as this is the only proper Entrysign fix - Other small cleanups and fixlets * tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.19_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/microcode: Mark early_parse_cmdline() as __init x86/microcode/AMD: Select which microcode patch to load x86/microcode/intel: Enable staging when available x86/microcode/intel: Support mailbox transfer x86/microcode/intel: Implement staging handler x86/microcode/intel: Define staging state struct x86/microcode/intel: Establish staging control logic x86/microcode: Introduce staging step to reduce late-loading time x86/cpu/topology: Make primary thread mask available with SMP=n |
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