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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c | 36 |
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c index dd6e3f15017..c3afba5a81a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ #include <asm/mtrr.h> #include <asm/mce.h> #include <asm/pat.h> +#include <asm/asm.h> #include <asm/numa.h> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC #include <asm/mpspec.h> @@ -215,6 +216,39 @@ static void __init early_cpu_support_print(void) } } +/* + * The NOPL instruction is supposed to exist on all CPUs with + * family >= 6, unfortunately, that's not true in practice because + * of early VIA chips and (more importantly) broken virtualizers that + * are not easy to detect. Hence, probe for it based on first + * principles. + * + * Note: no 64-bit chip is known to lack these, but put the code here + * for consistency with 32 bits, and to make it utterly trivial to + * diagnose the problem should it ever surface. + */ +static void __cpuinit detect_nopl(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) +{ + const u32 nopl_signature = 0x888c53b1; /* Random number */ + u32 has_nopl = nopl_signature; + + clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL); + if (c->x86 >= 6) { + asm volatile("\n" + "1: .byte 0x0f,0x1f,0xc0\n" /* nopl %eax */ + "2:\n" + " .section .fixup,\"ax\"\n" + "3: xor %0,%0\n" + " jmp 2b\n" + " .previous\n" + _ASM_EXTABLE(1b,3b) + : "+a" (has_nopl)); + + if (has_nopl == nopl_signature) + set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL); + } +} + static void __cpuinit early_identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c); void __init early_cpu_init(void) @@ -313,6 +347,8 @@ static void __cpuinit early_identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) c->x86_phys_bits = eax & 0xff; } + detect_nopl(c); + if (c->x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_UNKNOWN && cpu_devs[c->x86_vendor]->c_early_init) cpu_devs[c->x86_vendor]->c_early_init(c); |