Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86: kaslr: move CPU flags out of cpucheck

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Apr 25 2013 - 18:01:28 EST


On 04/25/2013 02:54 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> Since has_eflag() and has_fpu() are 32-bit only, short-circuit the
> routines on 64-bit when they are built without -m32. This also refactors
> the calls to cpuid to make them PIC-safe on 32-bit.

These functions can trivially be made 32- and 64-bit agnostic by
changing "u32" to "unsigned long" and drop the -l suffixes in the
assembly code.

-hpa

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