I ran into two problems with boot_cpu_data:
- boot_cpu_data doesn't contain the common capabilities of all cpus, it
contains the capabilities of the last booted cpu:
head.S is called by the trampoline code, and that overwrites
boot_cpu_data. [Untested due to lack of hardware]
- "mem=nopentium" disables the pse bit, but that is lost when
identify_cpu calls cpuid again.
What about the attached patch?
it creates an __initdata structure for head.S and adds a flag that
informs identify_cpu that pse is disabled.
--
Manfred
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Content-Type: text/plain;
name="patch-boot"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="patch-boot"
// $Header$
// Kernel Version:
// VERSION = 2
// PATCHLEVEL = 5
// SUBLEVEL = 51
// EXTRAVERSION =
--- 2.5/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c 2002-12-14 22:57:48.000000000 +0100
+++ build-2.5/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c 2002-12-15 00:23:06.000000000 +0100
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@
*/
char ignore_irq13; /* set if exception 16 works */
+/* cpu data as detected by the assembly code in head.S */
+struct cpuinfo_x86 early_cpu_data = { 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 1, 0, 0, -1 };
+/* common cpu data for all cpus */
struct cpuinfo_x86 boot_cpu_data = { 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 1, 0, 0, -1 };
unsigned long mmu_cr4_features;
@@ -87,6 +90,7 @@
extern int root_mountflags;
extern char _text, _etext, _edata, _end;
extern int blk_nohighio;
+extern int pse_disable;
void __init visws_get_board_type_and_rev(void);
unsigned long saved_videomode;
@@ -523,6 +527,7 @@
if (!memcmp(from+4, "nopentium", 9)) {
from += 9+4;
clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_PSE, boot_cpu_data.x86_capability);
+ pse_disable = 1;
} else if (!memcmp(from+4, "exactmap", 8)) {
from += 8+4;
e820.nr_map = 0;
@@ -837,6 +842,7 @@
{
unsigned long max_low_pfn;
+ memcpy(&boot_cpu_data, &early_cpu_data, sizeof(early_cpu_data));
pre_setup_arch_hook();
early_cpu_init();
--- 2.5/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c 2002-11-20 19:13:03.000000000 +0100
+++ build-2.5/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c 2002-12-15 00:00:45.000000000 +0100
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
}
__setup("cachesize=", cachesize_setup);
+int pse_disable __initdata = 0;
#ifndef CONFIG_X86_TSC
static int tsc_disable __initdata = 0;
@@ -313,6 +314,9 @@
if ( tsc_disable )
clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_TSC, c->x86_capability);
+ if ( pse_disable )
+ clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_PSE, c->x86_capability);
+
/* FXSR disabled? */
if (disable_x86_fxsr) {
clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_FXSR, c->x86_capability);
--- 2.5/arch/i386/kernel/head.S 2002-12-14 10:06:55.000000000 +0100
+++ build-2.5/arch/i386/kernel/head.S 2002-12-15 00:05:33.000000000 +0100
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@
#define NEW_CL_POINTER 0x228 /* Relative to real mode data */
/*
- * References to members of the boot_cpu_data structure.
+ * References to members of the early_cpu_data structure.
*/
-#define CPU_PARAMS boot_cpu_data
+#define CPU_PARAMS early_cpu_data
#define X86 CPU_PARAMS+0
#define X86_VENDOR CPU_PARAMS+1
#define X86_MODEL CPU_PARAMS+2
--- 2.5/include/asm-i386/processor.h 2002-11-30 10:52:22.000000000 +0100
+++ build-2.5/include/asm-i386/processor.h 2002-12-14 23:52:40.000000000 +0100
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
*/
extern struct cpuinfo_x86 boot_cpu_data;
+extern struct cpuinfo_x86 early_cpu_data;
extern struct tss_struct init_tss[NR_CPUS];
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
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