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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2009-09-14 22:26:05 +0400
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2009-09-14 22:26:05 +0400
commitac8d513a6801c8636922ccf4f30211810c9a56ce (patch)
tree83ba584487a6a612c8fcf2563c28c0263df35ba2 /arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
parentbf992fa2bc1ad1bb2aeb0bdfadb43f236b9297fd (diff)
parent99bc47067910f7070e65ee318a6dd79a2371f1e5 (diff)
downloadlinux-ac8d513a6801c8636922ccf4f30211810c9a56ce.tar.xz
Merge branch 'master' into for-linus
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h28
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index c7768269b1cf..e08ea043e085 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -403,7 +403,17 @@ extern unsigned long kernel_eflags;
extern asmlinkage void ignore_sysret(void);
#else /* X86_64 */
#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
-DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, stack_canary);
+/*
+ * Make sure stack canary segment base is cached-aligned:
+ * "For Intel Atom processors, avoid non zero segment base address
+ * that is not aligned to cache line boundary at all cost."
+ * (Optim Ref Manual Assembly/Compiler Coding Rule 15.)
+ */
+struct stack_canary {
+ char __pad[20]; /* canary at %gs:20 */
+ unsigned long canary;
+};
+DECLARE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct stack_canary, stack_canary);
#endif
#endif /* X86_64 */
@@ -703,13 +713,23 @@ static inline void cpu_relax(void)
rep_nop();
}
-/* Stop speculative execution: */
+/* Stop speculative execution and prefetching of modified code. */
static inline void sync_core(void)
{
int tmp;
- asm volatile("cpuid" : "=a" (tmp) : "0" (1)
- : "ebx", "ecx", "edx", "memory");
+#if defined(CONFIG_M386) || defined(CONFIG_M486)
+ if (boot_cpu_data.x86 < 5)
+ /* There is no speculative execution.
+ * jmp is a barrier to prefetching. */
+ asm volatile("jmp 1f\n1:\n" ::: "memory");
+ else
+#endif
+ /* cpuid is a barrier to speculative execution.
+ * Prefetched instructions are automatically
+ * invalidated when modified. */
+ asm volatile("cpuid" : "=a" (tmp) : "0" (1)
+ : "ebx", "ecx", "edx", "memory");
}
static inline void __monitor(const void *eax, unsigned long ecx,