x86, microcode: Add a disable chicken bit

Add a cmdline param which disables the microcode loader. This is useful
mostly in debugging situations where we want to turn off microcode
loading, both early from the initrd and late, as a means to be able to
rule out its influence on the machine.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400525957-11525-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h
index b59827e76529..64dc362506b7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ struct cpu_signature {
 struct device;
 
 enum ucode_state { UCODE_ERROR, UCODE_OK, UCODE_NFOUND };
+extern bool dis_ucode_ldr;
 
 struct microcode_ops {
         enum ucode_state (*request_microcode_user) (int cpu,