From: Adam Osuchowski <adwol@zonk.pl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Is 386 processor still supported?
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:03:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090108120338.6b8b4567@zonk.pl> (raw)
Recently, I found such piece of code in kernel 2.6.28 compiled for 386
processor:
# grep M386 .config
CONFIG_M386=y
# objdump -d vmlinux | grep -A11 '<_spin_lock>:'
c0321827 <_spin_lock>:
c0321827: 89 e2 mov %esp,%edx
c0321829: 81 e2 00 f0 ff ff and $0xfffff000,%edx
c032182f: ff 42 14 incl 0x14(%edx)
c0321832: ba 00 01 00 00 mov $0x100,%edx
c0321837: f0 66 0f c1 10 lock xadd %dx,(%eax)
c032183c: 38 f2 cmp %dh,%dl
c032183e: 74 06 je c0321846 <_spin_lock+0x1f>
c0321840: f3 90 pause
c0321842: 8a 10 mov (%eax),%dl
c0321844: eb f6 jmp c032183c <_spin_lock+0x15>
c0321846: c3 ret
But there is no xadd instruction on 386 processors. It is available on
486+ only. I have no chance to run this kernel on real 386 box, so I can't
check it in practice, but I think it will not run.
It is not compiler problem because it is explicitly written in assembly
in __raw_spin_lock() function (include/asm-x86/spinlock.h) and there is
no alternative code depending on CONFIG_M386.
Regards.
next reply other threads:[~2009-01-08 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-08 12:03 Adam Osuchowski [this message]
2009-01-08 13:05 ` Is 386 processor still supported? Jiri Kosina
2009-01-08 13:24 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-08 13:48 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-08 14:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-08 14:21 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-08 14:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-08 15:04 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-08 15:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-13 1:06 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 12:36 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-01-15 13:22 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 13:32 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-15 14:15 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 14:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16 9:00 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-16 10:13 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-01-16 11:18 ` Andrey Panin
2009-01-16 13:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-15 14:20 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-01-15 14:37 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2009-01-15 14:25 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-15 14:44 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 20:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-15 14:46 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-01-08 16:45 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-08 16:27 ` Andi Kleen
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