Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] x86/CPU: Add X86_FEATURE_CPUID

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Dec 06 2016 - 03:08:19 EST


On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 05:01:10PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
>
> Add a synthetic CPUID flag denoting whether the CPU sports the CPUID
> instruction or not. This will come useful later when accomodating
> CPUID-less CPUs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 7 ++++---
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> index a4f9aee62217..e6be43b2679a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
> #define X86_FEATURE_XTOPOLOGY ( 3*32+22) /* cpu topology enum extensions */
> #define X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE ( 3*32+23) /* TSC is known to be reliable */
> #define X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC ( 3*32+24) /* TSC does not stop in C states */
> -/* free, was #define X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR ( 3*32+25) * "" clflush reqd with monitor */
> +#define X86_FEATURE_CPUID ( 3*32+25) /* CPU has CPUID instruction itself */
> #define X86_FEATURE_EXTD_APICID ( 3*32+26) /* has extended APICID (8 bits) */
> #define X86_FEATURE_AMD_DCM ( 3*32+27) /* multi-node processor */
> #define X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF ( 3*32+28) /* APERFMPERF */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
> index cc9e980c68ec..37f031f39e27 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
> @@ -800,14 +800,12 @@ static void __init early_identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
> memset(&c->x86_capability, 0, sizeof c->x86_capability);
> c->extended_cpuid_level = 0;
>
> - if (!have_cpuid_p())
> - identify_cpu_without_cpuid(c);
> -
> /* cyrix could have cpuid enabled via c_identify()*/
> if (have_cpuid_p()) {
> cpu_detect(c);
> get_cpu_vendor(c);
> get_cpu_cap(c);
> + setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_CPUID);
>
> if (this_cpu->c_early_init)
> this_cpu->c_early_init(c);
> @@ -817,6 +815,9 @@ static void __init early_identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
>
> if (this_cpu->c_bsp_init)
> this_cpu->c_bsp_init(c);
> + } else {
> + identify_cpu_without_cpuid(c);
> + setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_CPUID);

checkpatch complains here:

WARNING: Statements should start on a tabstop
#68: FILE: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:818:
+ } else {


Please reflow tabs.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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