[tip:ras/core] x86/mce: Drop X86_FEATURE_MCE_RECOVERY and the related model string test

From: tip-bot for Tony Luck
Date: Mon Sep 05 2016 - 05:55:35 EST


Commit-ID: ffb173e657fa8123bffa2a169e124b4bca0b5bc4
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ffb173e657fa8123bffa2a169e124b4bca0b5bc4
Author: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:39:33 -0700
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 11:47:31 +0200

x86/mce: Drop X86_FEATURE_MCE_RECOVERY and the related model string test

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@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boris Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d5db39e08d46cf1012d94d3902275d08ba931926.1472754712.git.tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 -
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 11 -----------
2 files changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
index 92a8308..1188bc8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -106,7 +106,6 @@
#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 */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index acccebc..7f3f0e1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -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;