x86/microcode: Use native CPUID to tickle out microcode revision
Intel supplies the microcode revision value in MSR 0x8b (IA32_BIOS_SIGN_ID) after CPUID(1) has been executed. Execute it each time before reading that MSR. It used to do sync_core() which did do CPUID but c198b121 ("x86/asm: Rewrite sync_core() to use IRET-to-self") changed the sync_core() implementation so we better make the microcode loading case explicit, as the SDM documents it. Reported-and-tested-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170109114147.5082-3-bp@alien8.deSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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