x86/mce: Drop X86_FEATURE_MCE_RECOVERY and the related model string test
authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Thu, 1 Sep 2016 18:39:33 +0000 (11:39 -0700)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mon, 5 Sep 2016 09:47:31 +0000 (11:47 +0200)
We now have a better way to determine if we are running on a cpu that
supports machine check recovery. Free up this feature bit.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Boris Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d5db39e08d46cf1012d94d3902275d08ba931926.1472754712.git.tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c

index 92a8308b96f64cb6ce845a8379ca06cb9a6a00d6..1188bc849ee3b3253fd8229fca21bf2d6c87856e 100644 (file)
 #define X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF ( 3*32+28) /* APERFMPERF */
 #define X86_FEATURE_EAGER_FPU  ( 3*32+29) /* "eagerfpu" Non lazy FPU restore */
 #define X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC_S3 ( 3*32+30) /* TSC doesn't stop in S3 state */
-#define X86_FEATURE_MCE_RECOVERY ( 3*32+31) /* cpu has recoverable machine checks */
 
 /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000001 (ecx), word 4 */
 #define X86_FEATURE_XMM3       ( 4*32+ 0) /* "pni" SSE-3 */
index acccebcc836d45cfce58d51b968309e04d3fb1e1..7f3f0e147242adf673f89fdbd5c7e6f86697a880 100644 (file)
@@ -1634,17 +1634,6 @@ static int __mcheck_cpu_apply_quirks(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 
                if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model == 45)
                        quirk_no_way_out = quirk_sandybridge_ifu;
-               /*
-                * MCG_CAP.MCG_SER_P is necessary but not sufficient to know
-                * whether this processor will actually generate recoverable
-                * machine checks. Check to see if this is an E7 model Xeon.
-                * We can't do a model number check because E5 and E7 use the
-                * same model number. E5 doesn't support recovery, E7 does.
-                */
-               if (mca_cfg.recovery || (mca_cfg.ser &&
-                       !strncmp(c->x86_model_id,
-                                "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-", 24)))
-                       set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_MCE_RECOVERY);
        }
        if (cfg->monarch_timeout < 0)
                cfg->monarch_timeout = 0;