BackMerge tag 'v4.15-rc8' into drm-next

Linux 4.15-rc8

Daniel requested this for so the intel CI won't fall over on drm-next
so often.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
index 7dbcb7adf797..d9e460fc7a3b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
@@ -565,15 +565,6 @@ static void print_ucode(struct ucode_cpu_info *uci)
 }
 #else
 
-/*
- * Flush global tlb. We only do this in x86_64 where paging has been enabled
- * already and PGE should be enabled as well.
- */
-static inline void flush_tlb_early(void)
-{
-	__native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled();
-}
-
 static inline void print_ucode(struct ucode_cpu_info *uci)
 {
 	struct microcode_intel *mc;
@@ -602,10 +593,6 @@ static int apply_microcode_early(struct ucode_cpu_info *uci, bool early)
 	if (rev != mc->hdr.rev)
 		return -1;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-	/* Flush global tlb. This is precaution. */
-	flush_tlb_early();
-#endif
 	uci->cpu_sig.rev = rev;
 
 	if (early)
@@ -923,8 +910,17 @@ static bool is_blacklisted(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(cpu);
 
-	if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model == INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_X) {
-		pr_err_once("late loading on model 79 is disabled.\n");
+	/*
+	 * Late loading on model 79 with microcode revision less than 0x0b000021
+	 * may result in a system hang. This behavior is documented in item
+	 * BDF90, #334165 (Intel Xeon Processor E7-8800/4800 v4 Product Family).
+	 */
+	if (c->x86 == 6 &&
+	    c->x86_model == INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_X &&
+	    c->x86_mask == 0x01 &&
+	    c->microcode < 0x0b000021) {
+		pr_err_once("Erratum BDF90: late loading with revision < 0x0b000021 (0x%x) disabled.\n", c->microcode);
+		pr_err_once("Please consider either early loading through initrd/built-in or a potential BIOS update.\n");
 		return true;
 	}