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[PATCHv4 06/14] x86/boot/compressed/64: Detect and handle 5-level paging at boot-time

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From "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCHv4 06/14] x86/boot/compressed/64: Detect and handle 5-level paging at boot-time
Date Tue, 08 Aug 2017 15:00:02 +0200
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This patch prepare decompression code to boot-time switching between 4-
and 5-level paging.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
index fbf4c32d0b62..2e362aea3319 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
@@ -347,6 +347,28 @@ preferred_addr:
 	leaq	boot_stack_end(%rbx), %rsp
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL
+	/* Preserve rbx across cpuid */
+	movq	%rbx, %r8
+
+	/* Check if leaf 7 is supported */
+	movl	$0, %eax
+	cpuid
+	cmpl	$7, %eax
+	jb	lvl5
+
+	/*
+	 * Check if la57 is supported.
+	 * The feature is enumerated with CPUID.(EAX=07H, ECX=0):ECX[bit 16]
+	 */
+	movl	$7, %eax
+	movl	$0, %ecx
+	cpuid
+	andl	$(1 << 16), %ecx
+	jz	lvl5
+
+	/* Restore rbx */
+	movq	%r8, %rbx
+
 	/* Check if 5-level paging has already enabled */
 	movq	%cr4, %rax
 	testl	$X86_CR4_LA57, %eax
@@ -386,6 +408,8 @@ preferred_addr:
 	pushq	%rax
 	lretq
 lvl5:
+	/* Restore rbx */
+	movq	%r8, %rbx
 #endif
 
 	/* Zero EFLAGS */
-- 
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