x86: Sanity-check static_cpu_has usage

static_cpu_has may be used only after alternatives have run. Before that
it always returns false if constant folding with __builtin_constant_p()
doesn't happen. And you don't want that.

This patch is the result of me debugging an issue where I overzealously
put static_cpu_has in code which executed before alternatives have run
and had to spend some time with scratching head and cursing at the
monitor.

So add a jump to a warning which screams loudly when we use this
function too early. The alternatives patch that check away in
conjunction with patching the rest of the kernel image.

[ hpa: factored this into its own configuration option.  If we want to
  have an overarching option, it should be an option which selects
  other options, not as a group option in the source code. ]

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1370772454-6106-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Borislav Petkov
2013-06-09 12:07:32 +02:00
committed by H. Peter Anvin
parent c3b83598c1
commit 5700f743b5
3 changed files with 46 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -1364,3 +1364,11 @@ void __cpuinit cpu_init(void)
fpu_init();
}
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_DEBUG_STATIC_CPU_HAS
void warn_pre_alternatives(void)
{
WARN(1, "You're using static_cpu_has before alternatives have run!\n");
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(warn_pre_alternatives);
#endif