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| author | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2013-02-11 18:22:16 +0400 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2013-02-13 03:48:41 +0400 |
| commit | 9efb58de919efa8312861d454be014094f6f0ffc (patch) | |
| tree | dc6edbb3b3e7922a1975f2242dca373bbea248ea /arch | |
| parent | 166df91daf38f619d4ca90b58ff90983de6e40d2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-9efb58de919efa8312861d454be014094f6f0ffc.tar.xz | |
x86: Detect CPUID support early at boot
We detect CPUID function support on each CPU and save it for later use,
obviating the need to play the toggle EFLAGS.ID game every time. C code
is looking at ->cpuid_level anyway.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360592538-10643-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 50 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S index a9c5cc851285..e3725a0f4327 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S @@ -307,30 +307,39 @@ default_entry: movl %eax,%cr0 /* - * New page tables may be in 4Mbyte page mode and may - * be using the global pages. + * We want to start out with EFLAGS unambiguously cleared. Some BIOSes leave + * bits like NT set. This would confuse the debugger if this code is traced. So + * initialize them properly now before switching to protected mode. That means + * DF in particular (even though we have cleared it earlier after copying the + * command line) because GCC expects it. + */ + pushl $0 + popfl + +/* + * New page tables may be in 4Mbyte page mode and may be using the global pages. * - * NOTE! If we are on a 486 we may have no cr4 at all! - * Specifically, cr4 exists if and only if CPUID exists - * and has flags other than the FPU flag set. + * NOTE! If we are on a 486 we may have no cr4 at all! Specifically, cr4 exists + * if and only if CPUID exists and has flags other than the FPU flag set. */ + movl $-1,pa(X86_CPUID) # preset CPUID level movl $X86_EFLAGS_ID,%ecx pushl %ecx - popfl - pushfl - popl %eax - pushl $0 - popfl + popfl # set EFLAGS=ID pushfl - popl %edx - xorl %edx,%eax - testl %ecx,%eax - jz 6f # No ID flag = no CPUID = no CR4 + popl %eax # get EFLAGS + testl $X86_EFLAGS_ID,%eax # did EFLAGS.ID remained set? + jz 6f # hw disallowed setting of ID bit + # which means no CPUID and no CR4 + + xorl %eax,%eax + cpuid + movl %eax,pa(X86_CPUID) # save largest std CPUID function movl $1,%eax cpuid - andl $~1,%edx # Ignore CPUID.FPU - jz 6f # No flags or only CPUID.FPU = no CR4 + andl $~1,%edx # Ignore CPUID.FPU + jz 6f # No flags or only CPUID.FPU = no CR4 movl pa(mmu_cr4_features),%eax movl %eax,%cr4 @@ -378,14 +387,6 @@ default_entry: addl $__PAGE_OFFSET, %esp /* - * Initialize eflags. Some BIOS's leave bits like NT set. This would - * confuse the debugger if this code is traced. - * XXX - best to initialize before switching to protected mode. - */ - pushl $0 - popfl - -/* * start system 32-bit setup. We need to re-do some of the things done * in 16-bit mode for the "real" operations. */ @@ -461,7 +462,6 @@ is486: movl $0x50022,%ecx # set AM, WP, NE and MP xorl %eax,%eax # Clear LDT lldt %ax - cld # gcc2 wants the direction flag cleared at all times pushl $0 # fake return address for unwinder jmp *(initial_code) |