linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/6] Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing"

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Date:   Thu,  1 Dec 2016 16:34:58 -0800
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     x86@...nel.org
Cc:     One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@...il.com>,
        Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/6] Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing"

This reverts commit ed68d7e9b9cfb64f3045ffbcb108df03c09a0f98.

The patch wasn't quite correct -- there are non-Intel (and hence
non-486) CPUs that we support that don't have CPUID.  Since we no
longer require CPUID for sync_core(), just revert the patch.

I think the relevant CPUs are Geode and Elan, but I'm not sure.

In principle, we should try to do better at identifying CPUID-less
CPUs in early boot, but that's more complicated.

Reported-by: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@...il.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/boot/cpu.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c b/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c
index 4224ede43b4e..26240dde081e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/cpu.c
@@ -87,12 +87,6 @@ int validate_cpu(void)
 		return -1;
 	}
 
-	if (CONFIG_X86_MINIMUM_CPU_FAMILY <= 4 && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_M486) &&
-	    !has_eflag(X86_EFLAGS_ID)) {
-		printf("This kernel requires a CPU with the CPUID instruction.  Build with CONFIG_M486=y to run on this CPU.\n");
-		return -1;
-	}
-
 	if (err_flags) {
 		puts("This kernel requires the following features "
 		     "not present on the CPU:\n");
-- 
2.9.3