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| author | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2013-06-09 12:07:30 +0200 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2013-06-20 17:06:07 -0700 |
| commit | c3b83598c1eeb1507603b461f5843ec2a49e3033 (patch) | |
| tree | 4884fa44c454afdd8b85fd87fb153cea5a5036b2 | |
| parent | 60e019eb37a8d989031ad47ae9810453536f3127 (diff) | |
x86, cpu: Add a synthetic, always true, cpu feature
This will be used in alternatives later as an always-replace flag.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1370772454-6106-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h index e99ac27f95b..043d61e66ef 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ #define X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC (3*32+18) /* "" Lfence synchronizes RDTSC */ #define X86_FEATURE_11AP (3*32+19) /* "" Bad local APIC aka 11AP */ #define X86_FEATURE_NOPL (3*32+20) /* The NOPL (0F 1F) instructions */ - /* 21 available, was AMD_C1E */ +#define X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS (3*32+21) /* "" Always-present feature */ #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 */ diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index d4dd99350e9..d388ce1f3e1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -723,6 +723,8 @@ static void __init early_identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) if (this_cpu->c_bsp_init) this_cpu->c_bsp_init(c); + + setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS); } void __init early_cpu_init(void) |