linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/6] x86/microcode: Merge the early loader

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Message-Id: <1445334889-300-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de>
Date:	Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:54:43 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] x86/microcode: Merge the early loader

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

Hi all,

so this basically codifies what we're already doing in practice anyway:
the early loader is enabled and the microcode functionality is built-in.
So we can make this official and remove all that additional Kconfig
complexity of keeping the early and the late loader separate and we can
remove the module code glue because it is almost never used as a module.

We still have the unfortunately-named "dis_ucode_ldr" chicken bit to
disable it all, if needed.

More details in the individual commit messages.

Borislav Petkov (6):
  x86/microcode: Unmodularize driver
  x86/microcode: Merge early loader
  x86/microcode: Remove modularization leftovers
  x86/microcode/amd: Remove maintainers from comments
  x86/microcode/intel: Move ifdef DEBUG inside the function
  MAINTAINERS: Unify microcode driver section

 MAINTAINERS                                 |  16 +-
 arch/x86/Kconfig                            |  22 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h            |  26 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/microcode_amd.h        |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/microcode_intel.h      |  10 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/Makefile      |   3 -
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c         | 457 +++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd_early.c   | 444 ---------------
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c        | 232 +++++---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core_early.c  | 170 ------
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c       | 791 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c | 808 ----------------------------
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_lib.c   |   1 -
 arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S                   |   5 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c                     |   3 +
 arch/x86/mm/init.c                          |   2 -
 16 files changed, 1425 insertions(+), 1567 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd_early.c
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core_early.c
 delete mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c

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