amd microcode broken by 3.12.0?

amd microcode broken by 3.12.0?

[Gene Heskett]

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Greetings;

Fresh build/boot of a PAE 3.12.0 on an AMD Phenom...

On checking dmesg, I see:

microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x01000065
microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x01000065
microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x01000065
microcode: CPU3: patch_level=0x01000065
microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, 
Peter Oruba

Fairly late since I don't have early microcode checked in the .config.
FWIW, it didn't work when I had it checked either.

While booted to much older kernels, it reports that each cpu has been 
brought up to patch level 0x01000083

So, stepping into /etc/init.d and doing a "sudo ./microcode_ctl", this is 
returned:

 ./microcode_ctl: 90: gprintf: not found

Which has me scratching my head, wondering if my .config is screwed?
What is gprintf?

grepping .config for "print":
gene@coyote:~/src/linux-3.12.0$ grep -A5 print .config
# printk and dmesg options
#
# CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME is not set
CONFIG_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL=4
# CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is not set
# CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is not set

config.gz is attached.

Thanks for any hints.

Cheers, Gene
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Re: amd microcode broken by 3.12.0?

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:37:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> Fresh build/boot of a PAE 3.12.0 on an AMD Phenom...
> 
> On checking dmesg, I see:
> 
> microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x01000065
> microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x01000065
> microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x01000065
> microcode: CPU3: patch_level=0x01000065
> microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, 
> Peter Oruba
> 
> Fairly late since I don't have early microcode checked in the .config.

I have a bunch of fixes for that:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=138628638215162

wanna give them a try?

> FWIW, it didn't work when I had it checked either.
> 
> While booted to much older kernels, it reports that each cpu has been 
> brought up to patch level 0x01000083
> 
> So, stepping into /etc/init.d and doing a "sudo ./microcode_ctl", this is 
> returned:
> 
>  ./microcode_ctl: 90: gprintf: not found
> 
> Which has me scratching my head, wondering if my .config is screwed?

I don't think we ever did microcode update with the microcode_ctl on
AMD, did we? Hmmm.

In any case

echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload

should work.

HTH.