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
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.
Fixes: bd9240a18e ("x86/apic: Add TSC_DEADLINE quirk due to errata")
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Necasek <[email protected]>
Cc: Frank Mehnert <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Thayer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index 98b3dd8cf2bf..b3273c842850 100644
--- 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_match[] = {
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;
--
2.13.4
