From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] x86/microcode changes for v2.6.35
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 01:06:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100517230628.GA5703@elte.hu> (raw)
Linus,
Please pull the latest x86-microcode-for-linus git tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-microcode-for-linus
Thanks,
Ingo
------------------>
Arnd Bergmann (1):
x86/microcode: Use nonseekable_open()
Dimitri Sivanich (1):
x86: Improve Intel microcode loader performance
arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c | 4 ++--
arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
index cceb5bc..2cd8c54 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
@@ -201,9 +201,9 @@ static int do_microcode_update(const void __user *buf, size_t size)
return error;
}
-static int microcode_open(struct inode *unused1, struct file *unused2)
+static int microcode_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
- return capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) ? 0 : -EPERM;
+ return capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) ? nonseekable_open(inode, file) : -EPERM;
}
static ssize_t microcode_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c
index 85a343e..3561702 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c
@@ -343,10 +343,11 @@ static enum ucode_state generic_load_microcode(int cpu, void *data, size_t size,
int (*get_ucode_data)(void *, const void *, size_t))
{
struct ucode_cpu_info *uci = ucode_cpu_info + cpu;
- u8 *ucode_ptr = data, *new_mc = NULL, *mc;
+ u8 *ucode_ptr = data, *new_mc = NULL, *mc = NULL;
int new_rev = uci->cpu_sig.rev;
unsigned int leftover = size;
enum ucode_state state = UCODE_OK;
+ unsigned int curr_mc_size = 0;
while (leftover) {
struct microcode_header_intel mc_header;
@@ -361,9 +362,15 @@ static enum ucode_state generic_load_microcode(int cpu, void *data, size_t size,
break;
}
- mc = vmalloc(mc_size);
- if (!mc)
- break;
+ /* For performance reasons, reuse mc area when possible */
+ if (!mc || mc_size > curr_mc_size) {
+ if (mc)
+ vfree(mc);
+ mc = vmalloc(mc_size);
+ if (!mc)
+ break;
+ curr_mc_size = mc_size;
+ }
if (get_ucode_data(mc, ucode_ptr, mc_size) ||
microcode_sanity_check(mc) < 0) {
@@ -376,13 +383,16 @@ static enum ucode_state generic_load_microcode(int cpu, void *data, size_t size,
vfree(new_mc);
new_rev = mc_header.rev;
new_mc = mc;
- } else
- vfree(mc);
+ mc = NULL; /* trigger new vmalloc */
+ }
ucode_ptr += mc_size;
leftover -= mc_size;
}
+ if (mc)
+ vfree(mc);
+
if (leftover) {
if (new_mc)
vfree(new_mc);
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