Re: [PATCH] Pass through SSSE3 capability

[Alexander Graf <alex-r27SGEef+tmzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>]

Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 07:46:04PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>   
>> Darwin requires SSSE3 in 64-bit mode, so KVM needs to reveal the
>> appropriate CPUID flag. I could not find a proper define in the kernel
>> headers, so I just added the specific bit number.
>>     
>
>   
>> Index: kernel/x86.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- kernel.orig/x86.c
>> +++ kernel/x86.c
>> @@ -898,7 +903,7 @@ static void do_cpuid_ent(struct kvm_cpui
>>  		bit(X86_FEATURE_3DNOWEXT) |
>>  		bit(X86_FEATURE_3DNOW);
>>  	const u32 kvm_supported_word3_x86_features =
>> -		bit(X86_FEATURE_XMM3) | bit(X86_FEATURE_CX16);
>> +		bit(X86_FEATURE_XMM3) | bit(X86_FEATURE_CX16) | bit(9) /* SSSE3 */;
>>  	const u32 kvm_supported_word6_x86_features =
>>  		bit(X86_FEATURE_LAHF_LM) | bit(X86_FEATURE_CMP_LEGACY);
>>  
>>
>>     
>
> I bet that one day this will be added to asm-x86/cpufeature_32.h, so maybe
> adding the following would be nicer.
>   
I agree. Do I need to send a new patch including this as the patch is
really small?

> diff --git a/kernel/external-module-compat.h b/kernel/external-module-compat.h
> index 67b9cc4..0e2bc4c 100644
> --- a/kernel/external-module-compat.h
> +++ b/kernel/external-module-compat.h
> @@ -566,6 +566,9 @@ static inline void blahblah(void)
>  #ifndef X86_FEATURE_NX
>  #define X86_FEATURE_NX (1*32+20)
>  #endif
> +#ifndef X86_FEATURE_SSSE3
> +#define X86_FEATURE_SSSE3 (4*32+9)
> +#endif
>   


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