On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 11:54:48AM -0800, Jithu Joseph wrote: > @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ static inline bool cpu_signatures_match(unsigned int s1, unsigned int p1, > /* ... or they intersect. */ > return p1 & p2; > } > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_signatures_match); > > /* > * Returns 1 if update has been found, 0 otherwise. > @@ -342,7 +343,7 @@ scan_microcode(void *data, size_t size, struct ucode_cpu_info *uci, bool save) > return patch; > } > > -static int collect_cpu_info_early(struct ucode_cpu_info *uci) > +int collect_cpu_info_early(struct ucode_cpu_info *uci) > { > unsigned int val[2]; > unsigned int family, model; > @@ -372,6 +373,7 @@ static int collect_cpu_info_early(struct ucode_cpu_info *uci) > > return 0; > } > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(collect_cpu_info_early); This is not how this is done - simply exporting a couple of random functions just because you need them: drivers/platform/x86/intel/ifs/load.c: In function ‘find_ifs_matching_signature’: drivers/platform/x86/intel/ifs/load.c:213:6: error: invalid use of void expression 213 | if (!cpu_signatures_match(uci->cpu_sig.sig, uci->cpu_sig.pf, shdr->sig, shdr->pf)) { | ^ make[5]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:288: drivers/platform/x86/intel/ifs/load.o] Error 1 make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:550: drivers/platform/x86/intel/ifs] Error 2 make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:550: drivers/platform/x86/intel] Error 2 make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:550: drivers/platform/x86] Error 2 make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:550: drivers/platform] Error 2 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make: *** [Makefile:1831: drivers] Error 2 Hell, even your function signatures don't match. And then, with that fixed it would build but then one would wonder a long time why that ifs thing doesn't work. Well: # CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set So the proper thing to do is to extract the generic functionality for comparing microcode patch signatures and for gathering the information collect_cpu_info_early() collects, into intel-generic functions, like I've done with intel_get_microcode_revision(), move that functionality to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c and then use it *both* in the microcode loader *and* your driver. Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette