Re: Regression: unable to boot after commit bd9240a18edf ("x86/apic: Add TSC_DEADLINE quirk due to errata") - Surface Pro 4 SKL

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 04:22:15PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 09:14 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:08:53AM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi, All,
> > > 
> > > My Surface Pro 4 is unable to boot after 4.12. The symptom is that
> > > kernel freezes during boot, and the last message in the screen is
> > > loading the initrd image. And I have bisected it to this commit
> > > 
> > > +//	DEADLINE_MODEL_MATCH_REV ( INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_MOBILE,	
> > > 0xb2),
> > And what microcode version do you run? Have you installed the latest
> > microcode package and updated your initrd to include it? My skylake
> > is
> > running 0xba.
> 
> No, I didn't upgrade my microcode.
> 
> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> ...
> processor	: 0
> vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
> cpu family	: 6
> model		: 78
> model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6650U CPU @ 2.20GHz
> stepping	: 3
> microcode	: 0x9e
> ...
> 
> I suppose the problem should be gone if I upgrade the microcode.
> But the real problem to me is that the system FREEZES after kernel
> upgrade.

Yes, that is weird and unexpected. The patch basically kills
TSC_DEADLINE usage on older microcode. This makes the kernel then use
the old LAPIC timer mode.

Does your machine boot with "notscdeadline" ? Which _should_ be the
same.