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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: do not allow to optimize flag_is_changeable_p()
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:17:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E11BBE.3080709@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080929200603.dcdc5b71.krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>

Krzysztof Helt wrote:
> From: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
> 
> The flag_is_changeable_p() is used by
> has_cpuid_p() which can return different results
> in the code sequence below:
> 
>  if (!have_cpuid_p())
>       identify_cpu_without_cpuid(c);
> 
>   /* cyrix could have cpuid enabled via c_identify()*/
>   if (!have_cpuid_p())
>       return;
> 
> Otherwise, the gcc 3.4.6 optimizes these two calls
> into one which make the code not working correctly.
> Cyrix cpus have the CPUID instruction enabled but
> it is not detected due to the gcc optimization.
> Thus the ARR registers (mtrr like) are not detected
> on such a cpu.
> 

I suspect we should also out-of-line this function.  It's actually 
relatively sizable and certainly there is no point in inlining it.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-29 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-29 18:06 [PATCH] x86: do not allow to optimize flag_is_changeable_p() Krzysztof Helt
2008-09-29 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-09-30  6:14 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-30  6:34   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-09-30  6:54     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-30  8:27 krzysztof.h1
2008-09-30 15:23 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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