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Revision cc6afe2240298049585e86b1ade85efc8a7f225d authored by Paolo Bonzini on 10 October 2017, 10:12:57 UTC, committed by Thomas Gleixner on 12 October 2017, 15:10:10 UTC 
x86/apic: Silence "FW_BUG TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata" on hypervisors
 
Commit 594a30fb1242 ("x86/apic: Silence "FW_BUG TSC_DEADLINE disabled
due to Errata" on CPUs without the feature", 2017-08-30) was also about
silencing the warning on VirtualBox; however, KVM does expose the TSC
deadline timer, and it's virtualized so that it is immune from CPU errata.

Therefore, booting 4.13 with "-cpu Haswell" shows this in the logs:

     [    0.000000] [Firmware Bug]: TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata;
                    please update microcode to version: 0xb2 (or later)

Even if you had a hypervisor that does _not_ virtualize the TSC deadline
and rather exposes the hardware one, it should be the hypervisors task
to update microcode and possibly hide the flag from CPUID.  So just
hide the message when running on _any_ hypervisor, not just those that
do not support the TSC deadline timer.

The older check still makes sense, so keep it.

Fixes: bd9240a18e ("x86/apic: Add TSC_DEADLINE quirk due to errata")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507630377-54471-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
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Kbuild 
#
# Kbuild for top-level directory of the kernel
# This file takes care of the following:
# 1) Generate bounds.h
# 2) Generate timeconst.h
# 3) Generate asm-offsets.h (may need bounds.h and timeconst.h)
# 4) Check for missing system calls
# 5) Generate constants.py (may need bounds.h)

#####
# 1) Generate bounds.h

bounds-file := include/generated/bounds.h

always  := $(bounds-file)
targets := kernel/bounds.s

# We use internal kbuild rules to avoid the "is up to date" message from make
kernel/bounds.s: kernel/bounds.c FORCE
	$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
	$(call if_changed_dep,cc_s_c)

$(obj)/$(bounds-file): kernel/bounds.s FORCE
	$(call filechk,offsets,__LINUX_BOUNDS_H__)

#####
# 2) Generate timeconst.h

timeconst-file := include/generated/timeconst.h

targets += $(timeconst-file)

quiet_cmd_gentimeconst = GEN     $@
define cmd_gentimeconst
	(echo $(CONFIG_HZ) | bc -q $< ) > $@
endef
define filechk_gentimeconst
	(echo $(CONFIG_HZ) | bc -q $< )
endef

$(obj)/$(timeconst-file): kernel/time/timeconst.bc FORCE
	$(call filechk,gentimeconst)

#####
# 3) Generate asm-offsets.h
#

offsets-file := include/generated/asm-offsets.h

always  += $(offsets-file)
targets += arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s

# We use internal kbuild rules to avoid the "is up to date" message from make
arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s: arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.c \
                                      $(obj)/$(timeconst-file) $(obj)/$(bounds-file) FORCE
	$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
	$(call if_changed_dep,cc_s_c)

$(obj)/$(offsets-file): arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s FORCE
	$(call filechk,offsets,__ASM_OFFSETS_H__)

#####
# 4) Check for missing system calls
#

always += missing-syscalls
targets += missing-syscalls

quiet_cmd_syscalls = CALL    $<
      cmd_syscalls = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(CC) $(c_flags) $(missing_syscalls_flags)

missing-syscalls: scripts/checksyscalls.sh $(offsets-file) FORCE
	$(call cmd,syscalls)

#####
# 5) Generate constants for Python GDB integration
#

extra-$(CONFIG_GDB_SCRIPTS) += build_constants_py

build_constants_py: $(obj)/$(timeconst-file) $(obj)/$(bounds-file)
	@$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/gdb/linux $@

# Keep these three files during make clean
no-clean-files := $(bounds-file) $(offsets-file) $(timeconst-file)
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