diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
index 92a8308b96f64cb6ce845a8379ca06cb9a6a00d6..1188bc849ee3b3253fd8229fca21bf2d6c87856e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -106,7 +106,6 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF	( 3*32+28) /* APERFMPERF */
 #define X86_FEATURE_EAGER_FPU	( 3*32+29) /* "eagerfpu" Non lazy FPU restore */
 #define X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC_S3 ( 3*32+30) /* TSC doesn't stop in S3 state */
-#define X86_FEATURE_MCE_RECOVERY ( 3*32+31) /* cpu has recoverable machine checks */
 
 /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000001 (ecx), word 4 */
 #define X86_FEATURE_XMM3	( 4*32+ 0) /* "pni" SSE-3 */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index acccebcc836d45cfce58d51b968309e04d3fb1e1..7f3f0e147242adf673f89fdbd5c7e6f86697a880 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -1634,17 +1634,6 @@ static int __mcheck_cpu_apply_quirks(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 
 		if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model == 45)
 			quirk_no_way_out = quirk_sandybridge_ifu;
-		/*
-		 * MCG_CAP.MCG_SER_P is necessary but not sufficient to know
-		 * whether this processor will actually generate recoverable
-		 * machine checks. Check to see if this is an E7 model Xeon.
-		 * We can't do a model number check because E5 and E7 use the
-		 * same model number. E5 doesn't support recovery, E7 does.
-		 */
-		if (mca_cfg.recovery || (mca_cfg.ser &&
-			!strncmp(c->x86_model_id,
-				 "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-", 24)))
-			set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_MCE_RECOVERY);
 	}
 	if (cfg->monarch_timeout < 0)
 		cfg->monarch_timeout = 0;