Updating microcode used to be relatively rare. Now that it has become more common we should save the microcode version in a machine check record to make sure that those people looking at the error have this important information bundled with the rest of the logged information.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com> --- arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h index 91723461dc1f..435db58a7bad 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ struct mce { __u64 synd; /* MCA_SYND MSR: only valid on SMCA systems */ __u64 ipid; /* MCA_IPID MSR: only valid on SMCA systems */ __u64 ppin; /* Protected Processor Inventory Number */ + __u32 microcode;/* Microcode revision */ }; #define MCE_GET_RECORD_LEN _IOR('M', 1, int) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c index 8ff94d1e2dce..b9403c446e05 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c @@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(x86_mce_decoder_chain); /* Do initial initialization of a struct mce */ void mce_setup(struct mce *m) { + struct cpuinfo_x86 *c; + memset(m, 0, sizeof(struct mce)); m->cpu = m->extcpu = smp_processor_id(); /* We hope get_seconds stays lockless */ @@ -130,6 +132,9 @@ void mce_setup(struct mce *m) if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_INTEL_PPIN)) rdmsrl(MSR_PPIN, m->ppin); + + c = &cpu_data(m->cpu); + m->microcode = c->microcode; } DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mce, injectm); -- 2.14.1