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authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>2008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-30 13:33:21 +0100
commitac72e7888a612dccfbc15b34698aad441bdfda10 (patch)
treeabd99cb2ad8ddfd7f695bcfbe6eb9b6e1183ed3d /arch
parent191679fdfa63342752ff6a094a2522ae939b8d0c (diff)
x86: add generic clearcpuid=... option
Add a generic option to clear any cpuid bit. I added it because it was very easy to add with the new generic cpuid disable bitmap and perhaps it will be useful in the future. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c11
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c11
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 56b7ea8e6c7..56cc341cc58 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -572,6 +572,17 @@ void __cpuinit print_cpu_info(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
printk("\n");
}
+static __init int setup_disablecpuid(char *arg)
+{
+ int bit;
+ if (get_option(&arg, &bit) && bit < NCAPINTS*32)
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(bit);
+ else
+ return 0;
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("clearcpuid=", setup_disablecpuid);
+
cpumask_t cpu_initialized __cpuinitdata = CPU_MASK_NONE;
/* This is hacky. :)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
index cb9b8a90c09..79635b7bd57 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -1050,6 +1050,17 @@ void __cpuinit print_cpu_info(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
printk(KERN_CONT "\n");
}
+static __init int setup_disablecpuid(char *arg)
+{
+ int bit;
+ if (get_option(&arg, &bit) && bit < NCAPINTS*32)
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(bit);
+ else
+ return 0;
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("clearcpuid=", setup_disablecpuid);
+
/*
* Get CPU information for use by the procfs.
*/