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Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch v3 2/2] x86/microcode: Synchronize late microcode loading


  • To: Chao Gao <chao.gao@xxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:09:41 +0000
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  • Cc: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>, "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@xxxxxxxxx>, "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@xxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:09:49 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>
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On 13/11/2018 09:08, Chao Gao wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 06:01:33AM +0800, Gao, Chao wrote:
>> This patch ports microcode improvement patches from linux kernel.
>>
>> Before you read any further: the early loading method is still the
>> preferred one and you should always do that. The following patch is
>> improving the late loading mechanism for long running jobs and cloud use
>> cases.
>>
>> Gather all cores and serialize the microcode update on them by doing it
>> one-by-one to make the late update process as reliable as possible and
>> avoid potential issues caused by the microcode update.
>>
>> This patch is also in accord with Andrew's suggestion,
>> "Rendezvous all online cpus in an IPI to apply the patch, and keep the
>> processors in until all have completed the patch.", in [1].
>>
>> [1]:https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/XenParavirtOps/microcode_update#Run_time_microcode_updates
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@xxxxxxxxx>
>> [linux commit: a5321aec6412b20b5ad15db2d6b916c05349dbff]
>> [linux commit: bb8c13d61a629276a162c1d2b1a20a815cbcfbb7]
>> Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> +static int do_microcode_update(void *_info)
>> +{
>> +    struct microcode_info *info = _info;
>> +    unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
>> +    int ret;
>> +
>> +    ret = wait_for_cpus(&info->cpu_in, MICROCODE_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT);
>> +    if ( ret )
>> +        return ret;
>> +
>> +    /*
>> +     * Logical threads which set the first bit in cpu_sibling_mask can do
>> +     * the update. Other sibling threads just await the completion of
>> +     * microcode update.
>> +     */
>> +    if ( !cpumask_test_and_set_cpu(
>> +                cpumask_first(per_cpu(cpu_sibling_mask, cpu)), &info->cpus) 
>> )
>> +        ret = microcode_update_cpu(info->buffer, info->buffer_size);
> HI
>
> A critical issue I realized is that microcode_update_cpu() here contains
> much things, for instance, parsing the microcode binary and loading it. It is
> a bad idea to put so much things in stop_machine context, especially memory
> allocation (I did observe one assertion triggered sometimes when doing this).
> AFAIK, we have two solutions:
> 1. use a malloc variation which can be used in stop_machine context.
> 2. like linux kernel, we can separate the microcode parsing from loading,
> and in stop_machine context only do microcode loading. When parsing microcode
> binary, all valid ucodes are put into a list. At loading stage, going through
> the list is definitely safe.
>
> What's your opinion on these two solutions?

Definitely option 2.  That work wants to be done once, in the hypercall
handler, before rendezvousing the system.

A useful side effect is that it reduces the quantity of work to do in
the rendezvous.

~Andrew

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