x86, cpu: Expand cpufeature facility to include cpu bugs

We add another 32-bit vector at the end of the ->x86_capability
bitvector which collects bugs present in CPUs. After all, a CPU bug is a
kind of a capability, albeit a strange one.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This commit is contained in:
Borislav Petkov
2013-03-20 15:07:23 +01:00
committed by H. Peter Anvin
parent 07961ac7c0
commit 65fc985b37
4 changed files with 19 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -920,6 +920,10 @@ static void __cpuinit identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
/* AND the already accumulated flags with these */
for (i = 0; i < NCAPINTS; i++)
boot_cpu_data.x86_capability[i] &= c->x86_capability[i];
/* OR, i.e. replicate the bug flags */
for (i = NCAPINTS; i < NCAPINTS + NBUGINTS; i++)
c->x86_capability[i] |= boot_cpu_data.x86_capability[i];
}
/* Init Machine Check Exception if available. */