* Jia Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Instead of blacklisting all types of Broadwell processor when running
> a late loading, only BDW-EP (signature 0x406f1, aka family 6, model 79,
> stepping 1) with the microcode version less than 0x0b000021 needs to
> be blacklisted.
>
> The erratum is documented in the the public documentation #334165 (See
> the item BDF90 for details).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang <[email protected]>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
> b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
> index 8ccdca6..79cad85 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
> @@ -910,8 +910,16 @@ static bool is_blacklisted(unsigned int cpu)
> {
> struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(cpu);
>
> - if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model == INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_X) {
> - pr_err_once("late loading on model 79 is disabled.\n");
> + /*
> + * The Broadwell-EP processor with the microcode version less
> + * then 0x0b000021 may result in system hang when running a late
> + * loading. This behavior is documented in item BDF90, #334165
> + * (Intel Xeon Processor E7-8800/4800 v4 Product Family).
> + */
> + if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model == INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_X &&
> + c->x86_mask == 0x01 && c->microcode < 0x0b000021) {
> + pr_err_once("late loading on cpu (sig 0x406f1) is disabled "
> + "due to erratum causing system hang.\n");
Please never break user-readable messages mid-sentence!
This should be something like:
pr_err_once("Late loading of the CPU microcode (sig 0x406f1) is
disabled due to Intel erratum BDF90 causing system hangs.\n");
(note the spelling and readability improvements as well)
Btw., what does 'sig 0x406f1' refer to?
Thanks,
Ingo
