This patch may allow us to remove the REP emulation code from
kmemcheck.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx>
+#ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK
+ /*
+ * P4s have a "fast strings" feature which causes single-
+ * stepping REP instructions to only generate a #DB on
+ * cache-line boundaries.
+ *
+ * Ingo Molnar reported a Pentium D (model 6) and a Xeon
+ * (model 2) with the same problem.
+ */
+ if (c->x86 == 15) {
+ u64 misc_enable;
+
+ rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE, misc_enable);
+
+ if (misc_enable & MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_FAST_STRING) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "kmemcheck: Disabling fast string operations\n");
+
+ misc_enable &= ~MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_FAST_STRING;
+ wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE, misc_enable);
+ }
+ }
+#endif
}
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32