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authorBorislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>2010-10-04 03:31:27 -0400
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2010-10-04 14:22:24 -0400
commit366d4a43b1a7a861c356a0e407c4f03f454d42ea (patch)
tree29778279487b468584a1a2897c7f9c677c2bb172 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu
parentc2b9ff24a0df649d4d40947878b5b5ac39c7299e (diff)
x86, cpu: Fix X86_FEATURE_NOPL
ba0593bf553c450a03dbc5f8c1f0ff58b778a0c8 cleared the aforementioned cpuid bit only on 32-bit due to various problems with Virtual PC. This somehow got lost during the 32- + 64-bit merge so restore the feature bit on 64-bit. For that, set it explicitly for non-constant arguments of cpu_has(). Update comment for future reference. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> LKML-Reference: <20101004073127.GA20305@liondog.tnic> Cc: Ryan O'Neill <ryan@innosecc.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index f2f9ac7da25c..927e630aeaf3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -704,16 +704,21 @@ void __init early_cpu_init(void)
704} 704}
705 705
706/* 706/*
707 * The NOPL instruction is supposed to exist on all CPUs with 707 * The NOPL instruction is supposed to exist on all CPUs of family >= 6;
708 * family >= 6; unfortunately, that's not true in practice because 708 * unfortunately, that's not true in practice because of early VIA
709 * of early VIA chips and (more importantly) broken virtualizers that 709 * chips and (more importantly) broken virtualizers that are not easy
710 * are not easy to detect. In the latter case it doesn't even *fail* 710 * to detect. In the latter case it doesn't even *fail* reliably, so
711 * reliably, so probing for it doesn't even work. Disable it completely 711 * probing for it doesn't even work. Disable it completely on 32-bit
712 * unless we can find a reliable way to detect all the broken cases. 712 * unless we can find a reliable way to detect all the broken cases.
713 * Enable it explicitly on 64-bit for non-constant inputs of cpu_has().
713 */ 714 */
714static void __cpuinit detect_nopl(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) 715static void __cpuinit detect_nopl(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
715{ 716{
717#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
716 clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL); 718 clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL);
719#else
720 set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL);
721#endif
717} 722}
718 723
719static void __cpuinit generic_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) 724static void __cpuinit generic_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)