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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index 80ab20d..4e456bd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ #include <asm/mtrr.h> #include <asm/mce.h> #include <asm/pat.h> +#include <asm/asm.h> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC #include <asm/mpspec.h> #include <asm/apic.h> @@ -334,11 +335,24 @@ static void __init early_cpu_detect(void) get_cpu_vendor(c, 1); + early_get_cap(c); + if (c->x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_UNKNOWN && cpu_devs[c->x86_vendor]->c_early_init) cpu_devs[c->x86_vendor]->c_early_init(c); +} - early_get_cap(c); +/* + * 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 + * unless we can find a reliable way to detect all the broken cases. + */ +static void __cpuinit detect_nopl(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) +{ + clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL); } static void __cpuinit generic_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) @@ -395,8 +409,8 @@ static void __cpuinit generic_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) } init_scattered_cpuid_features(c); + detect_nopl(c); } - } static void __cpuinit squash_the_stupid_serial_number(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) |