Re: [RFC, PATCHv1 15/28] x86: detect 5-level paging support

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Dec 09 2016 - 11:33:45 EST


On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 06:32:33PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Something like this?
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/cpuflags.c b/arch/x86/boot/cpuflags.c
> index 6687ab953257..366aad972025 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/cpuflags.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/cpuflags.c
> @@ -70,16 +70,22 @@ int has_eflag(unsigned long mask)
> # define EBX_REG "=b"
> #endif
>
> -static inline void cpuid(u32 id, u32 *a, u32 *b, u32 *c, u32 *d)
> +static inline void cpuid_count(u32 id, u32 count,
> + u32 *a, u32 *b, u32 *c, u32 *d)
> {
> + *a = id;
> + *c = count;
> +
> asm volatile(".ifnc %%ebx,%3 ; movl %%ebx,%3 ; .endif \n\t"
> "cpuid \n\t"
> ".ifnc %%ebx,%3 ; xchgl %%ebx,%3 ; .endif \n\t"
> : "=a" (*a), "=c" (*c), "=d" (*d), EBX_REG (*b)
> - : "a" (id)
> + : "a" (id), "c" (count)
> );
> }
>
> +#define cpuid(id, a, b, c, d) cpuid_count(id, 0, a, b, c, d)

LGTM.

Thanks.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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