Commit 96b0ee45 authored by Borislav Petkov's avatar Borislav Petkov Committed by Borislav Petkov

x86, microcode, AMD: Add a reusable buffer

Add a simple 4K page which gets allocated on driver init and freed on
driver exit instead of vmalloc'ing small buffers for each ucode patch.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
parent f72c1a57
......@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ struct microcode_amd {
static struct equiv_cpu_entry *equiv_cpu_table;
/* page-sized ucode patch buffer */
void *patch;
static int collect_cpu_info_amd(int cpu, struct cpu_signature *csig)
{
struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(cpu);
......@@ -351,9 +354,14 @@ static struct microcode_ops microcode_amd_ops = {
struct microcode_ops * __init init_amd_microcode(void)
{
patch = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
if (!patch)
return NULL;
return &microcode_amd_ops;
}
void __exit exit_amd_microcode(void)
{
free_page((unsigned long)patch);
}
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