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Commit 93946a33 authored by Ashok Raj's avatar Ashok Raj Committed by Borislav Petkov
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x86/microcode: Update late microcode in parallel



Microcode update was changed to be serialized due to restrictions after
Spectre days. Updating serially on a large multi-socket system can be
painful since it is being done on one CPU at a time.

Cloud customers have expressed discontent as services disappear for
a prolonged time. The restriction is that only one core (or only one
thread of a core in the case of an SMT system) goes through the update
while other cores (or respectively, SMT threads) are quiesced.

Do the microcode update only on the first thread of each core while
other siblings simply wait for this to complete.

 [ bp: Simplify, massage, cleanup comments. ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarAshok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jon Grimm <Jon.Grimm@amd.com>
Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: patrick.colp@oracle.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1566506627-16536-2-git-send-email-mihai.carabas@oracle.com
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