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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index f2f9ac7da25c..927e630aeaf3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -704,16 +704,21 @@ void __init early_cpu_init(void) } /* - * 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 + * The NOPL instruction is supposed to exist on all CPUs of 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 on 32-bit * unless we can find a reliable way to detect all the broken cases. + * Enable it explicitly on 64-bit for non-constant inputs of cpu_has(). */ static void __cpuinit detect_nopl(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) { +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL); +#else + set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL); +#endif } static void __cpuinit generic_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) |
