[PATCH 3/3] x86/tsc: Remove the TSC_ADJUST clamp

[Peter Zijlstra]

Now that all affected platforms have a microcode update; and we check
this and disable TSC_DEADLINE and print a microcode revision update
error if its too old, we can remove the TSC_ADJUST clamp.

This should help with systems where the second socket runs ahead of
the first socket and needs a negative adjustment. In this case we'd
hit the 0 clamp and give up for not achieving synchronization.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/tsc_sync.c |   21 +--------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 20 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_sync.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_sync.c
@@ -71,13 +71,8 @@ static void tsc_sanitize_first_cpu(struc
 	 * non zero. We don't do that on non boot cpus because physical
 	 * hotplug should have set the ADJUST register to a value > 0 so
 	 * the TSC is in sync with the already running cpus.
-	 *
-	 * But we always force positive ADJUST values. Otherwise the TSC
-	 * deadline timer creates an interrupt storm. We also have to
-	 * prevent values > 0x7FFFFFFF as those wreckage the timer as well.
 	 */
-	if ((bootcpu && bootval != 0) || (!bootcpu && bootval < 0) ||
-	    (bootval > 0x7FFFFFFF)) {
+	if (bootcpu && bootval != 0) {
 		pr_warn(FW_BUG "TSC ADJUST: CPU%u: %lld force to 0\n", cpu,
 			bootval);
 		wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_TSC_ADJUST, 0);
@@ -451,20 +446,6 @@ void check_tsc_sync_target(void)
 	 */
 	cur->adjusted += cur_max_warp;
 
-	/*
-	 * TSC deadline timer stops working or creates an interrupt storm
-	 * with adjust values < 0 and > x07ffffff.
-	 *
-	 * To allow adjust values > 0x7FFFFFFF we need to disable the
-	 * deadline timer and use the local APIC timer, but that requires
-	 * more intrusive changes and we do not have any useful information
-	 * from Intel about the underlying HW wreckage yet.
-	 */
-	if (cur->adjusted < 0)
-		cur->adjusted = 0;
-	if (cur->adjusted > 0x7FFFFFFF)
-		cur->adjusted = 0x7FFFFFFF;
-
 	pr_warn("TSC ADJUST compensate: CPU%u observed %lld warp. Adjust: %lld\n",
 		cpu, cur_max_warp, cur->adjusted);