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[1/5] x86/ucode/intel: Remove CPUID from collect_cpu_info()

Message ID 20200402101902.28234-2-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series x86/ucode: Cleanup part 5/n | expand

Commit Message

Andrew Cooper April 2, 2020, 10:18 a.m. UTC
The CPUID instruction is expensive.  No point executing it twice when once
will do fine.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
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CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
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 xen/arch/x86/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Jan Beulich April 3, 2020, 1:36 p.m. UTC | #1
On 02.04.2020 12:18, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> The CPUID instruction is expensive.  No point executing it twice when once
> will do fine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
albeit ...

> --- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/microcode/intel.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/microcode/intel.c
> @@ -121,14 +121,12 @@ static int collect_cpu_info(struct cpu_signature *csig)
>  
>      memset(csig, 0, sizeof(*csig));
>  
> -    csig->sig = cpuid_eax(0x00000001);
> -
>      rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_PLATFORM_ID, msr_content);
>      csig->pf = 1 << ((msr_content >> 50) & 7);
>  
>      wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, 0x0ULL);
>      /* As documented in the SDM: Do a CPUID 1 here */
> -    cpuid_eax(1);
> +    csig->sig = cpuid_eax(1);

... with this, perhaps make the title say "remove one CPUID ..."
or some such?

Jan
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diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/microcode/intel.c b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/microcode/intel.c
index 72bd1ad0bc..f1e64e188b 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/microcode/intel.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/microcode/intel.c
@@ -121,14 +121,12 @@  static int collect_cpu_info(struct cpu_signature *csig)
 
     memset(csig, 0, sizeof(*csig));
 
-    csig->sig = cpuid_eax(0x00000001);
-
     rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_PLATFORM_ID, msr_content);
     csig->pf = 1 << ((msr_content >> 50) & 7);
 
     wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, 0x0ULL);
     /* As documented in the SDM: Do a CPUID 1 here */
-    cpuid_eax(1);
+    csig->sig = cpuid_eax(1);
 
     /* get the current revision from MSR 0x8B */
     rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, msr_content);