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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index 8aab8517642..4e456bd955b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -344,31 +344,15 @@ static void __init early_cpu_detect(void) /* * The NOPL instruction is supposed to exist on all CPUs with - * family >= 6, unfortunately, that's not true in practice because + * 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. Hence, probe for it based on first - * principles. + * 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) { - const u32 nopl_signature = 0x888c53b1; /* Random number */ - u32 has_nopl = nopl_signature; - clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL); - if (c->x86 >= 6) { - asm volatile("\n" - "1: .byte 0x0f,0x1f,0xc0\n" /* nopl %eax */ - "2:\n" - " .section .fixup,\"ax\"\n" - "3: xor %0,%0\n" - " jmp 2b\n" - " .previous\n" - _ASM_EXTABLE(1b,3b) - : "+a" (has_nopl)); - - if (has_nopl == nopl_signature) - set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL); - } } static void __cpuinit generic_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c index b117d7f8a56..885c8265e6b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c @@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ static int __init enable_mtrr_cleanup_setup(char *str) enable_mtrr_cleanup = 1; return 0; } -early_param("enble_mtrr_cleanup", enable_mtrr_cleanup_setup); +early_param("enable_mtrr_cleanup", enable_mtrr_cleanup_setup); struct var_mtrr_state { unsigned long range_startk; |