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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf/x86: fix microcode revision check for SNB-PEBS
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 03:34:34PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>
> The following patch, relative to 3.6.0-rc3, makes
> the microcode update code path actually invoke the
> perf_check_microcode() function and thus potentially
> renabling SNB PEBS.
>
> By default, CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE is
> forced to Y in arch/x86/Kconfig. There is no
> way to disable this. That means that the code
> path used in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
> did not include the call to perf_check_microcode().
>
> Thus, even though the microcode was updated to a
> version that fixes the SNB PEBS problem, perf_event
> would still return EOPNOTSUPP when enabling precise
> sampling.
>
> This patch simply adds a call to perf_check_microcode()
> in the call path used when OLD_INTERFACE=y.

Ok, so c93dc84cbe324 added calls to perf_check_microcode but it looks
like you're updating the microcode from /dev/cpu/microcode, correct?

And if so, the old interface got missed.

Oh well, as long as we have to support it, we might as well add that
perf call there - it will go when the interface goes anyway so until
then:

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>

>
> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
> ---
>
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
> @@ -225,6 +225,9 @@ static ssize_t microcode_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
> if (do_microcode_update(buf, len) == 0)
> ret = (ssize_t)len;
>
> + if (ret > 0)
> + perf_check_microcode();
> +
> mutex_unlock(&microcode_mutex);
> put_online_cpus();
>
>

Thanks.

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