linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] Fixed broken microcode early loading on 32 bit platforms because it always jumps past cpuid in sync_core() as data structure boot_cpu_data are not populated so early in boot. This is for 4.4. Should be done for 4.9 too

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Date:   Sun, 19 Apr 2020 19:29:43 +0300
From:   Evalds Iodzevics <evalds.iodzevics@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        Evalds Iodzevics <evalds.iodzevics@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Fixed broken microcode early loading on 32 bit platforms because it always jumps past cpuid in sync_core() as data structure boot_cpu_data are not populated so early in boot. This is for 4.4. Should be done for 4.9 too

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/microcode_intel.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode_intel.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode_intel.h
index 90343ba50485..92ce9c8a508b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode_intel.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode_intel.h
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static inline u32 intel_get_microcode_revision(void)
 	native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, 0);
 
 	/* As documented in the SDM: Do a CPUID 1 here */
-	sync_core();
+	native_cpuid_eax(1);
 
 	/* get the current revision from MSR 0x8B */
 	native_rdmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, dummy, rev);
-- 
2.17.4