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Revision a5321aec6412b20b5ad15db2d6b916c05349dbff authored by Ashok Raj on 28 February 2018, 10:28:46 UTC, committed by Thomas Gleixner on 08 March 2018, 09:19:26 UTC 
x86/microcode: Synchronize late microcode loading
 
Original idea by Ashok, completely rewritten by Borislav.

Before you read any further: the early loading method is still the
preferred one and you should always do that. The following patch is
improving the late loading mechanism for long running jobs and cloud use
cases.

Gather all cores and serialize the microcode update on them by doing it
one-by-one to make the late update process as reliable as possible and
avoid potential issues caused by the microcode update.

[ Borislav: Rewrite completely. ]

Co-developed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180228102846.13447-8-bp@alien8.de
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exec_domain.c 
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
 * Handling of different ABIs (personalities).
 *
 * We group personalities into execution domains which have their
 * own handlers for kernel entry points, signal mapping, etc...
 *
 * 2001-05-06	Complete rewrite,  Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
 */

#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/kmod.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/personality.h>
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/sysctl.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/fs_struct.h>

#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
static int execdomains_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
{
	seq_puts(m, "0-0\tLinux           \t[kernel]\n");
	return 0;
}

static int execdomains_proc_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
	return single_open(file, execdomains_proc_show, NULL);
}

static const struct file_operations execdomains_proc_fops = {
	.open		= execdomains_proc_open,
	.read		= seq_read,
	.llseek		= seq_lseek,
	.release	= single_release,
};

static int __init proc_execdomains_init(void)
{
	proc_create("execdomains", 0, NULL, &execdomains_proc_fops);
	return 0;
}
module_init(proc_execdomains_init);
#endif

SYSCALL_DEFINE1(personality, unsigned int, personality)
{
	unsigned int old = current->personality;

	if (personality != 0xffffffff)
		set_personality(personality);

	return old;
}
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