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Message-Id: <1431332153-18566-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 10:15:47 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: [PATCH] x86/cpu/microcode: Zap changelog From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> It is useless at best and git history has it all detailed anyway. Update copyright while at it. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c | 76 +++++------------------------------ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 75 ++++------------------------------ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 135 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c index 36a83617eb21..6236a54a63f4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c @@ -1,74 +1,16 @@ /* - * Intel CPU Microcode Update Driver for Linux + * CPU Microcode Update Driver for Linux * - * Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk> - * 2006 Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com> + * Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk> + * 2006 Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com> + * 2013-2015 Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> * - * This driver allows to upgrade microcode on Intel processors - * belonging to IA-32 family - PentiumPro, Pentium II, - * Pentium III, Xeon, Pentium 4, etc. + * This driver allows to upgrade microcode on x86 processors. * - * Reference: Section 8.11 of Volume 3a, IA-32 Intel? Architecture - * Software Developer's Manual - * Order Number 253668 or free download from: - * - * http://developer.intel.com/Assets/PDF/manual/253668.pdf - * - * For more information, go to http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode - * - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or - * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License - * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version - * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. - * - * 1.0 16 Feb 2000, Tigran Aivazian <tigran@....com> - * Initial release. - * 1.01 18 Feb 2000, Tigran Aivazian <tigran@....com> - * Added read() support + cleanups. - * 1.02 21 Feb 2000, Tigran Aivazian <tigran@....com> - * Added 'device trimming' support. open(O_WRONLY) zeroes - * and frees the saved copy of applied microcode. - * 1.03 29 Feb 2000, Tigran Aivazian <tigran@....com> - * Made to use devfs (/dev/cpu/microcode) + cleanups. - * 1.04 06 Jun 2000, Simon Trimmer <simon@...itas.com> - * Added misc device support (now uses both devfs and misc). - * Added MICROCODE_IOCFREE ioctl to clear memory. - * 1.05 09 Jun 2000, Simon Trimmer <simon@...itas.com> - * Messages for error cases (non Intel & no suitable microcode). - * 1.06 03 Aug 2000, Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com> - * Removed ->release(). Removed exclusive open and status bitmap. - * Added microcode_rwsem to serialize read()/write()/ioctl(). - * Removed global kernel lock usage. - * 1.07 07 Sep 2000, Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com> - * Write 0 to 0x8B msr and then cpuid before reading revision, - * so that it works even if there were no update done by the - * BIOS. Otherwise, reading from 0x8B gives junk (which happened - * to be 0 on my machine which is why it worked even when I - * disabled update by the BIOS) - * Thanks to Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman@...i.com> for the fix. - * 1.08 11 Dec 2000, Richard Schaal <richard.schaal@...el.com> and - * Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com> - * Intel Pentium 4 processor support and bugfixes. - * 1.09 30 Oct 2001, Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com> - * Bugfix for HT (Hyper-Threading) enabled processors - * whereby processor resources are shared by all logical processors - * in a single CPU package. - * 1.10 28 Feb 2002 Asit K Mallick <asit.k.mallick@...el.com> and - * Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com>, - * Serialize updates as required on HT processors due to - * speculative nature of implementation. - * 1.11 22 Mar 2002 Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com> - * Fix the panic when writing zero-length microcode chunk. - * 1.12 29 Sep 2003 Nitin Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@...el.com>, - * Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@...el.com> - * Support for the microcode updates in the new format. - * 1.13 10 Oct 2003 Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com> - * Removed ->read() method and obsoleted MICROCODE_IOCFREE ioctl - * because we no longer hold a copy of applied microcode - * in kernel memory. - * 1.14 25 Jun 2004 Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com> - * Fix sigmatch() macro to handle old CPUs with pf == 0. - * Thanks to Stuart Swales for pointing out this bug. + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License + * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version + * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. */ #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c index a41beadb3db9..e20d4e58cd89 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c @@ -1,74 +1,13 @@ /* - * Intel CPU Microcode Update Driver for Linux + * Intel CPU Microcode Update Driver for Linux * - * Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk> - * 2006 Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com> + * Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk> + * 2006 Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com> * - * This driver allows to upgrade microcode on Intel processors - * belonging to IA-32 family - PentiumPro, Pentium II, - * Pentium III, Xeon, Pentium 4, etc. - * - * Reference: Section 8.11 of Volume 3a, IA-32 Intel? Architecture - * Software Developer's Manual - * Order Number 253668 or free download from: - * - * http://developer.intel.com/Assets/PDF/manual/253668.pdf - * - * For more information, go to http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode - * - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or - * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License - * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version - * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. - * - * 1.0 16 Feb 2000, Tigran Aivazian <tigran@....com> - * Initial release. - * 1.01 18 Feb 2000, Tigran Aivazian <tigran@....com> - * Added read() support + cleanups. - * 1.02 21 Feb 2000, Tigran Aivazian <tigran@....com> - * Added 'device trimming' support. open(O_WRONLY) zeroes - * and frees the saved copy of applied microcode. - * 1.03 29 Feb 2000, Tigran Aivazian <tigran@....com> - * Made to use devfs (/dev/cpu/microcode) + cleanups. - * 1.04 06 Jun 2000, Simon Trimmer <simon@...itas.com> - * Added misc device support (now uses both devfs and misc). - * Added MICROCODE_IOCFREE ioctl to clear memory. - * 1.05 09 Jun 2000, Simon Trimmer <simon@...itas.com> - * Messages for error cases (non Intel & no suitable microcode). - * 1.06 03 Aug 2000, Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com> - * Removed ->release(). Removed exclusive open and status bitmap. - * Added microcode_rwsem to serialize read()/write()/ioctl(). - * Removed global kernel lock usage. - * 1.07 07 Sep 2000, Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com> - * Write 0 to 0x8B msr and then cpuid before reading revision, - * so that it works even if there were no update done by the - * BIOS. Otherwise, reading from 0x8B gives junk (which happened - * to be 0 on my machine which is why it worked even when I - * disabled update by the BIOS) - * Thanks to Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman@...i.com> for the fix. - * 1.08 11 Dec 2000, Richard Schaal <richard.schaal@...el.com> and - * Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com> - * Intel Pentium 4 processor support and bugfixes. - * 1.09 30 Oct 2001, Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com> - * Bugfix for HT (Hyper-Threading) enabled processors - * whereby processor resources are shared by all logical processors - * in a single CPU package. - * 1.10 28 Feb 2002 Asit K Mallick <asit.k.mallick@...el.com> and - * Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com>, - * Serialize updates as required on HT processors due to - * speculative nature of implementation. - * 1.11 22 Mar 2002 Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com> - * Fix the panic when writing zero-length microcode chunk. - * 1.12 29 Sep 2003 Nitin Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@...el.com>, - * Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@...el.com> - * Support for the microcode updates in the new format. - * 1.13 10 Oct 2003 Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com> - * Removed ->read() method and obsoleted MICROCODE_IOCFREE ioctl - * because we no longer hold a copy of applied microcode - * in kernel memory. - * 1.14 25 Jun 2004 Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...itas.com> - * Fix sigmatch() macro to handle old CPUs with pf == 0. - * Thanks to Stuart Swales for pointing out this bug. + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License + * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version + * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. */ #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt -- 2.3.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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