Commit 07d981ad authored by Josh Poimboeuf's avatar Josh Poimboeuf Committed by David Woodhouse

x86/microcode: Allow late microcode loading with SMT disabled

The kernel unnecessarily prevents late microcode loading when SMT is
disabled.  It should be safe to allow it if all the primary threads are
online.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
parent e24f14b0
......@@ -509,12 +509,20 @@ static struct platform_device *microcode_pdev;
static int check_online_cpus(void)
{
if (num_online_cpus() == num_present_cpus())
return 0;
unsigned int cpu;
pr_err("Not all CPUs online, aborting microcode update.\n");
/*
* Make sure all CPUs are online. It's fine for SMT to be disabled if
* all the primary threads are still online.
*/
for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
if (topology_is_primary_thread(cpu) && !cpu_online(cpu)) {
pr_err("Not all CPUs online, aborting microcode update.\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
}
return -EINVAL;
return 0;
}
static atomic_t late_cpus_in;
......
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