Patch "x86/microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-microcode-amd-add-support-for-fam17h-microcode-loading.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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f4e9b7af0cd58dd039a0fb2cd67d57cea4889abfMon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lendacky <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:46:40 -0600
Subject: x86/microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading
From: Tom Lendacky <[email protected]>
commit f4e9b7af0cd58dd039a0fb2cd67d57cea4889abf upstream.
The size for the Microcode Patch Block (MPB) for an AMD family 17h processor is 3200 bytes. Add a #define for fam17h so that it does not default to 2048 bytes and fail a microcode load/update.
--- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c +4 -0
@@ -580,6 +580,7 @@ static unsigned int verify_patch_size(u8#define F14H_MPB_MAX_SIZE 1824#define F15H_MPB_MAX_SIZE 4096#define F16H_MPB_MAX_SIZE 3458 +#define F17H_MPB_MAX_SIZE 3200switch (family) {case 0x14 :
@@ -591,6 +592,9 @@ static unsigned int verify_patch_size(u8case 0x16 : max_size =F16H_MPB_MAX_SIZE ;break ; +case 0x17 : + max_size =F17H_MPB_MAX_SIZE ; +break ;default : max_size =F1XH_MPB_MAX_SIZE ;break ;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.4/x86-microcode-amd-add-support-for-fam17h-microcode-loading.patch