x86/events/intel: Do not deploy TSX force abort workaround when TSX is deprecated
Earlier workaround added by 400816f6 ("perf/x86/intel: Implement support for TSX Force Abort") for perf counter interactions [1] are not required on some client systems which received a microcode update that deprecates TSX. Bypass the perf workaround when such microcode is enumerated. [1] [ bp: Look for document ID 604224, "Performance Monitoring Impact of Intel Transactional Synchronization Extension Memory". Since there's no way for us to have stable links to documents... ] [ bp: Massage comment. ] Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan <neelima.krishnan@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e4d410f786946280ced02dd07c74e0a74f1d10cb.1623704845.git-series.pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com
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