From ff6e8c0d5e47f0ceeebde86ec2f5919dbd5beb67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:11:50 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] x86: Cr4 is valid on some 486s

So some 486 processors do have CR4 register.  Allow them to present it in
register dumps by using the old fault technique rather than testing processor
family.

Thanks to Maciej for noticing this.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 include/asm-i386/system.h | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

(limited to 'include/asm-i386/system.h')

diff --git a/include/asm-i386/system.h b/include/asm-i386/system.h
index 772f85da1206..88b4d5c6f37a 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/system.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/system.h
@@ -140,6 +140,19 @@ static inline unsigned long _get_base(char * addr)
 		:"=r" (__dummy)); \
 	__dummy; \
 })
+
+#define read_cr4_safe() ({			      \
+	unsigned int __dummy;			      \
+	/* This could fault if %cr4 does not exist */ \
+	__asm__("1: movl %%cr4, %0		\n"   \
+		"2:				\n"   \
+		".section __ex_table,\"a\"	\n"   \
+		".long 1b,2b			\n"   \
+		".previous			\n"   \
+		: "=r" (__dummy): "0" (0));	      \
+	__dummy;				      \
+})
+
 #define write_cr4(x) \
 	__asm__ __volatile__("movl %0,%%cr4": :"r" (x));
 #define stts() write_cr0(8 | read_cr0())
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