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| author | Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> | 2009-05-11 23:48:27 +0200 | 
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-12 10:36:44 +0200 | 
| commit | 871b72dd1e12afc3f024479531d25a9339d2e3f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 132f309ab587561f4da1cfe6592c570fbad67d53 /drivers/staging/line6/dumprequest.c | |
| parent | a4d7749be5de4a7261bcbe3c7d96c748792ec455 (diff) | |
x86: microcode: use smp_call_function_single instead of set_cpus_allowed, cleanup of synchronization logic
* Solve issues described in 6f66cbc63081fd70e3191b4dbb796746780e5ae1
  in a way that doesn't resort to set_cpus_allowed();
* in fact, only collect_cpu_info and apply_microcode callbacks
  must run on a target cpu, others will do just fine on any other.
  smp_call_function_single() (as suggested by Ingo) is used to run
  these callbacks on a target cpu.
* cleanup of synchronization logic of the 'microcode_core' part
  The generic 'microcode_core' part guarantees that only a single cpu
  (be it a full-fledged cpu, one of the cores or HT)
  is being updated at any particular moment of time.
  In general, there is no need for any additional sync. mechanism in
  arch-specific parts (the patch removes existing spinlocks).
  See also the "Synchronization" section in microcode_core.c.
* return -EINVAL instead of -1 (which is translated into -EPERM) in
  microcode_write(), reload_cpu() and mc_sysdev_add(). Other suggestions
  for an error code?
* use 'enum ucode_state' as return value of request_microcode_{fw, user}
  to gain more flexibility by distinguishing between real error cases
  and situations when an appropriate ucode was not found (which is not an
  error per-se).
* some minor cleanups
Thanks a lot to Hugh Dickins for review/suggestions/testing!
   Reference: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124025889012541&w=2
[ Impact: refactor and clean up microcode driver locking code ]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1242078507.5560.9.camel@earth>
[ did some more cleanups ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
 arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h  |   25 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c   |   58 ++----
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c  |  326 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c |   92 +++-------
 4 files changed, 261 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-)
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