Commit-ID: 2d5be37d686c4dae8e60d20283d6f44ac2c44f65 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/2d5be37d686c4dae8e60d20283d6f44ac2c44f65 Author: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:24:00 +0100 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:39:49 +0100 x86/microcode: Initialize the driver late when facilities are up Running microcode_init() from setup_arch() is a bad idea because not even kmalloc() is ready at that point and the loader does all kinds of allocations and init/registration with various subsystems. Make it a late initcall when required facilities are initialized so that the microcode driver initialization can succeed too. Reported-and-tested-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151120112400.GC4028@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 2 -- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c index 7fc27f1..b3e94ef 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c @@ -698,3 +698,4 @@ int __init microcode_init(void) return error; } +late_initcall(microcode_init); diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c index 29db25f..d2bbe34 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c @@ -1250,8 +1250,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) if (efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT)) efi_apply_memmap_quirks(); #endif - - microcode_init(); } #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html