[artful][PATCH 2/2] x86/apic: Silence "FW_BUG TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata" on hypervisors
Dan Streetman
dan.streetman at canonical.com
Thu Oct 19 20:11:42 UTC 2017
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1724912
Commit 594a30fb1242 ("x86/apic: Silence "FW_BUG TSC_DEADLINE disabled
due to Errata" on CPUs without the feature", 2017-08-30) was also about
silencing the warning on VirtualBox; however, KVM does expose the TSC
deadline timer, and it's virtualized so that it is immune from CPU errata.
Therefore, booting 4.13 with "-cpu Haswell" shows this in the logs:
[ 0.000000] [Firmware Bug]: TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata;
please update microcode to version: 0xb2 (or later)
Even if you had a hypervisor that does _not_ virtualize the TSC deadline
and rather exposes the hardware one, it should be the hypervisors task
to update microcode and possibly hide the flag from CPUID. So just
hide the message when running on _any_ hypervisor, not just those that
do not support the TSC deadline timer.
The older check still makes sense, so keep it.
Fixes: bd9240a18e ("x86/apic: Add TSC_DEADLINE quirk due to errata")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
Cc: kvm at vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507630377-54471-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
(cherry-picked from commit cc6afe2240298049585e86b1ade85efc8a7f225d upstream)
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <dan.streetman at canonical.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index b3273c842850..a7be1b4283a0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -602,7 +602,8 @@ static void apic_check_deadline_errata(void)
const struct x86_cpu_id *m;
u32 rev;
- if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER))
+ if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER) ||
+ boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR))
return;
m = x86_match_cpu(deadline_match);
--
2.14.1
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