x86/microcode: Add per CPU control field
Add a per CPU control field to ucode_ctrl and define constants for it which are going to be used to control the loading state machine. In theory this could be a global control field, but a global control does not cover the following case: 15 primary CPUs load microcode successfully 1 primary CPU fails and returns with an error code With global control the sibling of the failed CPU would either try again or the whole operation would be aborted with the consequence that the 15 siblings do not invoke the apply path and end up with inconsistent software state. The result in dmesg would be inconsistent too. There are two additional fields added and initialized: ctrl_cpu and secondaries. ctrl_cpu is the CPU number of the primary thread for now, but with the upcoming uniform loading at package or system scope this will be one CPU per package or just one CPU. Secondaries hands the control CPU a CPU mask which will be required to release the secondary CPUs out of the wait loop. Preparatory change for implementing a properly split control flow for primary and secondary CPUs. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.319959519@linutronix.de
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