Commit 94f6bac1 authored by Krzysztof Helt's avatar Krzysztof Helt Committed by Ingo Molnar

x86: do not allow to optimize flag_is_changeable_p() (rev. 2)

The flag_is_changeable_p() is used by
has_cpuid_p() which can return different results
in the code sequence below:

 if (!have_cpuid_p())
      identify_cpu_without_cpuid(c);

  /* cyrix could have cpuid enabled via c_identify()*/
  if (!have_cpuid_p())
      return;

Otherwise, the gcc 3.4.6 optimizes these two calls
into one which make the code not working correctly.

Cyrix cpus have the CPUID instruction enabled before
the second call to the have_cpuid_p() but
it is not detected due to the gcc optimization.
Thus the ARR registers (mtrr like) are not detected
on such a cpu.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKrzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent e2ce07c8
......@@ -124,7 +124,14 @@ static inline int flag_is_changeable_p(u32 flag)
{
u32 f1, f2;
asm("pushfl\n\t"
/*
* Cyrix and IDT cpus allow disabling of CPUID
* so the code below may return different results
* when it is executed before and after enabling
* the CPUID. Add "volatile" to not allow gcc to
* optimize the subsequent calls to this function.
*/
asm volatile ("pushfl\n\t"
"pushfl\n\t"
"popl %0\n\t"
"movl %0,%1\n\t"
......
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