[PATCH 4.13 01/11] x86/apic: Silence "FW_BUG TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata" on CPUs without the feature

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4.13-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 594a30fb12424717a41c62323d2a8bf167dbccad upstream.

When booting 4.13 on a VirtualBox VM on a Skylake host the following
error shows up in the logs:

 [    0.000000] [Firmware Bug]: TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata;
                please update microcode to version: 0xb2 (or later)

This is caused by apic_check_deadline_errata() only checking CPU model
and not the X86_FEATURE_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER flag (which VirtualBox does
NOT export to the guest), combined with VirtualBox not exporting the
micro-code version to the guest.

This commit adds a check for X86_FEATURE_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER to
apic_check_deadline_errata(), silencing this error on VirtualBox VMs.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Thayer <michael.thayer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Necasek <michal.necasek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: bd9240a18e ("x86/apic: Add TSC_DEADLINE quirk due to errata")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170830105811.27539-1-hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -599,9 +599,13 @@ static const struct x86_cpu_id deadline_
 
 static void apic_check_deadline_errata(void)
 {
-	const struct x86_cpu_id *m = x86_match_cpu(deadline_match);
+	const struct x86_cpu_id *m;
 	u32 rev;
 
+	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER))
+		return;
+
+	m = x86_match_cpu(deadline_match);
 	if (!m)
 		return;
 





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