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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2012-12-18 10:22:27 +1100
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2012-12-18 10:22:27 +1100
commit376bddd34433065aeb9b9a140870537feecf90ef (patch)
treea40e2b84ad89f4b3ba968de65a4bf7ff6ccae835 /arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
parentd526e85f60fce9aa2a1432cbd06e3cf20c1644c8 (diff)
parent667b504a2c411e4d5915a6e2260a3857ba9f797a (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'agust/next' into next
Brings some 52xx updates. Also manually merged tools/perf/perf.h. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
index 957a47aec64..4dac2f68ed4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
@@ -292,8 +292,8 @@ default_entry:
* be using the global pages.
*
* NOTE! If we are on a 486 we may have no cr4 at all!
- * Specifically, cr4 exists if and only if CPUID exists,
- * which in turn exists if and only if EFLAGS.ID exists.
+ * Specifically, cr4 exists if and only if CPUID exists
+ * and has flags other than the FPU flag set.
*/
movl $X86_EFLAGS_ID,%ecx
pushl %ecx
@@ -308,6 +308,11 @@ default_entry:
testl %ecx,%eax
jz 6f # No ID flag = no CPUID = no CR4
+ movl $1,%eax
+ cpuid
+ andl $~1,%edx # Ignore CPUID.FPU
+ jz 6f # No flags or only CPUID.FPU = no CR4
+
movl pa(mmu_cr4_features),%eax
movl %eax,%cr4