x86/CPU: Check CPU feature bits after microcode upgrade
With some microcode upgrades, new CPUID features can become visible on the CPU. Check what the kernel has mirrored now and issue a warning hinting at possible things the user/admin can do to make use of the newly visible features. Originally-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180216112640.11554-4-bp@alien8.deSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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