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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2008-08-18 17:39:32 -0700
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2008-09-05 16:13:52 -0700
commitb6734c35af028f06772c0b2c836c7d579e6d4dad (patch)
treeecdfc0dc851f440b0f5861b8c3fe6b582d516d1b /arch/x86
parentb74b06c5f6612a72298f37baa65460a59c26ca67 (diff)
x86: add NOPL as a synthetic CPU feature bit
The long noops ("NOPL") are supposed to be detected by family >= 6. Unfortunately, several non-Intel x86 implementations, both hardware and software, don't obey this dictum. Instead, probe for NOPL directly by executing a NOPL instruction and see if we get #UD. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c32
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c36
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c3
3 files changed, 69 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 80ab20d4fa3..0785b3c8d04 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <asm/mtrr.h>
#include <asm/mce.h>
#include <asm/pat.h>
+#include <asm/asm.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
#include <asm/mpspec.h>
#include <asm/apic.h>
@@ -341,6 +342,35 @@ static void __init early_cpu_detect(void)
early_get_cap(c);
}
+/*
+ * 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.
+ */
+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 generic_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
u32 tfms, xlvl;
@@ -395,8 +425,8 @@ static void __cpuinit generic_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
}
init_scattered_cpuid_features(c);
+ detect_nopl(c);
}
-
}
static void __cpuinit squash_the_stupid_serial_number(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
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);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c
index e43ad4ad4cb..c9017799497 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ const char * const x86_cap_flags[NCAPINTS*32] = {
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
"constant_tsc", "up", NULL, "arch_perfmon",
"pebs", "bts", NULL, NULL,
- "rep_good", NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
+ "rep_good", NULL, NULL, NULL,
+ "nopl", NULL, NULL, NULL,
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
/* Intel-defined (#2) */