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Commit 5fbbc25a authored by David Woodhouse's avatar David Woodhouse Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86, boot: Fix word-size assumptions in has_eflag() inline asm



Commit dd78b973 ("x86, boot: Move CPU
flags out of cpucheck") introduced ambiguous inline asm in the
has_eflag() function. In 16-bit mode want the instruction to be
'pushfl', but we just say 'pushf' and hope the compiler does what we
wanted.

When building with 'clang -m16', it won't, because clang doesn't use
the horrid '.code16gcc' hack that even 'gcc -m16' uses internally.

Say what we mean and don't make the compiler make assumptions.

[ hpa: ideally we would be able to use the gcc %zN construct here, but
  that is broken for 64-bit integers in gcc < 4.5.

  The code with plain "pushf/popf" is fine for 32- or 64-bit mode, but
  not for 16-bit mode; in 16-bit mode those are 16-bit instructions in
  .code16 mode, and 32-bit instructions in .code16gcc mode. ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391079628.26079.82.camel@shinybook.infradead.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
parent 4064e0ea
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