linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] x86 kenel won't boot under Virtual PC

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Message-ID: <20080908171858.GQ26079@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Mon, 8 Sep 2008 19:18:58 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	linux@...dersweb.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi-suse@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] x86 kenel won't boot under Virtual PC

> Btw, I do think that the whole NOPL issue is separate from all the other 
> issues. There can be _other_ cases where it really is worth doing some 
> "generic" optimizations or being more "specific", and my argument really 
> is that NOPL is _not_ one of those cases.
> 
> So I'm still not sure that X86_GENERIC is necessarily the answer. The 

FWIW I personally think Linux should always use very conservative nops. 
Unconditionally. This issue already cost far too much developer time
and it's unlikely to be worth it.

> Peter - does gcc actually use NOPL in _32-bit_ code too? It really seems 

gcc just uses .p2align, so it comes down to binutils

Yes there seems to be a pretty scary ISA selection code in there.

Line 565 of

http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=i386_align_code+show:pxieOi43ptA:OXGjJbna8V8:zfd_fdPYgEI&sa=N&cd=1&ct=rc&cs_p=http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/binutils-2.17.50.0.13.tar.bz2&cs_f=binutils-2.17.50.0.13/gas/config/tc-i386.c

I haven't decoded it completely, but I suspect it does the wrong thing.

-Andi
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