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authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2009-12-16 16:25:42 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-01-06 14:26:35 -0800
commit43abf240b660703fbff2bae3695e41f1169795f5 (patch)
treed6b26f49e87dad926e6b33003bdd8c1477b23bdd /arch
parent3c55fa560d5befabcfe62c76d94e84a43ee34f06 (diff)
x86, cpuid: Add "volatile" to asm in native_cpuid()
commit 45a94d7cd45ed991914011919e7d40eb6d2546d1 upstream. xsave_cntxt_init() does something like: cpuid(0xd, ..); // find out what features FP/SSE/.. etc are supported xsetbv(); // enable the features known to OS cpuid(0xd, ..); // find out the size of the context for features enabled Depending on what features get enabled in xsetbv(), value of the cpuid.eax=0xd.ecx=0.ebx changes correspondingly (representing the size of the context that is enabled). As we don't have volatile keyword for native_cpuid(), gcc 4.1.2 optimizes away the second cpuid and the kernel continues to use the cpuid information obtained before xsetbv(), ultimately leading to kernel crash on processors supporting more state than the legacy FP/SSE. Add "volatile" for native_cpuid(). Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1261009542.2745.55.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index e597ecc8753c..70c6a939031b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static inline void native_cpuid(unsigned int *eax, unsigned int *ebx,
unsigned int *ecx, unsigned int *edx)
{
/* ecx is often an input as well as an output. */
- asm("cpuid"
+ asm volatile("cpuid"
: "=a" (*eax),
"=b" (*ebx),
"=c" (*ecx),