[PATCH 06/97] x86, cpuid: Add "volatile" to asm in native_cpuid()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jan 04 2010 - 19:56:32 EST


From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 45a94d7cd45ed991914011919e7d40eb6d2546d1 upstream.

xsave_cntxt_init() does something like:

cpuid(0xd, ..); // find out what features FP/SSE/.. etc are supported

xsetbv(); // enable the features known to OS

cpuid(0xd, ..); // find out the size of the context for features enabled

Depending on what features get enabled in xsetbv(), value of the
cpuid.eax=0xd.ecx=0.ebx changes correspondingly (representing the
size of the context that is enabled).

As we don't have volatile keyword for native_cpuid(), gcc 4.1.2
optimizes away the second cpuid and the kernel continues to use
the cpuid information obtained before xsetbv(), ultimately leading to kernel
crash on processors supporting more state than the legacy FP/SSE.

Add "volatile" for native_cpuid().

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <1261009542.2745.55.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index c978648..13b1885 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static inline void native_cpuid(unsigned int *eax, unsigned int *ebx,
unsigned int *ecx, unsigned int *edx)
{
/* ecx is often an input as well as an output. */
- asm("cpuid"
+ asm volatile("cpuid"
: "=a" (*eax),
"=b" (*ebx),
"=c" (*ecx),
--
1.6.6

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