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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-21 13:18:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-21 13:18:36 -0700
commitbf70030dc0b031f000c74721f2e9c88686b7da6d (patch)
treee5cd09cb2d7b33647c8fa0b9288bbaf81c0e6d80 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
parentd60a2793ba562c6ea9bbf62112da3e6342adcf83 (diff)
parent366d4a43b1a7a861c356a0e407c4f03f454d42ea (diff)
Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, cpu: Fix X86_FEATURE_NOPL x86, cpu: Re-run get_cpu_cap() after adjusting the CPUID level
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c')
-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 15c671385f59..92af7b420ab2 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)
}
/*
- * 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. In the latter case it doesn't even *fail*
- * reliably, so probing for it doesn't even work. Disable it completely
+ * The NOPL instruction is supposed to exist on all CPUs of 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. In the latter case it doesn't even *fail* reliably, so
+ * probing for it doesn't even work. Disable it completely on 32-bit
* unless we can find a reliable way to detect all the broken cases.
+ * Enable it explicitly on 64-bit for non-constant inputs of cpu_has().
*/
static void __cpuinit detect_nopl(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL);
+#else
+ set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL);
+#endif
}
static void __cpuinit generic_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)