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authorVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>2008-04-03 18:53:23 -0400
committerVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>2009-06-15 06:40:02 -0400
commitf85612967c93b67b10dd240e3e8bf8a0eee9def7 (patch)
tree184a70bc888b35235ee0b1805a06f90fd45295d8 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
parentf8b4ece2a94693b7d2dd32ea716cb92545b5dce6 (diff)
x86: add hooks for kmemcheck
The hooks that we modify are: - Page fault handler (to handle kmemcheck faults) - Debug exception handler (to hide pages after single-stepping the instruction that caused the page fault) Also redefine memset() to use the optimized version if kmemcheck is enabled. (Thanks to Pekka Enberg for minimizing the impact on the page fault handler.) As kmemcheck doesn't handle MMX/SSE instructions (yet), we also disable the optimized xor code, and rely instead on the generic C implementation in order to avoid false-positive warnings. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> [whitespace fixlet] Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c')
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1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
index daed39ba2614..3260ab044996 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -86,6 +86,29 @@ static void __cpuinit early_init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
86 */ 86 */
87 if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model < 15) 87 if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model < 15)
88 clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_PAT); 88 clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_PAT);
89
90#ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK
91 /*
92 * P4s have a "fast strings" feature which causes single-
93 * stepping REP instructions to only generate a #DB on
94 * cache-line boundaries.
95 *
96 * Ingo Molnar reported a Pentium D (model 6) and a Xeon
97 * (model 2) with the same problem.
98 */
99 if (c->x86 == 15) {
100 u64 misc_enable;
101
102 rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE, misc_enable);
103
104 if (misc_enable & MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_FAST_STRING) {
105 printk(KERN_INFO "kmemcheck: Disabling fast string operations\n");
106
107 misc_enable &= ~MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_FAST_STRING;
108 wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE, misc_enable);
109 }
110 }
111#endif
89} 112}
90 113
91#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 114#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32