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Date:	Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:07:03 +0200
From:	Matteo Croce <matteo@...nwrt.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: AMD Geode NOPL emulation for kernel 2.6.36-rc2

Hi,
I have received many mails asking to refresh the patch so I decided to
post them on the public mailing list
In this version such feature is configurable via a kernel config option

Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <matteo@...nwrt.org>

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile	2010-08-27 00:27:50.101261000 +0200
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile	2010-08-27 00:31:11.391261002 +0200
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_APB_TIMER)		+= apb_timer.o

 obj-$(CONFIG_K8_NB)		+= k8.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_GEODE_NOPL)	+= nopl_emu.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_GEODE_NOPL)	+= nopl_emu.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA_TEST)	+= test_rodata.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_NX_TEST)	+= test_nx.o

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c	2010-08-27 00:27:50.161261000 +0200
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c	2010-08-27 00:34:13.371261000 +0200
@@ -137,11 +137,15 @@
 		return;
 	}

+#ifdef CONFIG_GEODE_NOPL
 	if (c->x86_model == 10) {
-		/* AMD Geode LX is model 10 */
-		/* placeholder for any needed mods */
+		/* Geode only lacks the NOPL instruction to be i686,
+		   but we can promote it to a i686 class cpu
+		   and emulate NOPLs in the exception handler*/
+		boot_cpu_data.x86 = 6;
 		return;
 	}
+#endif
 }

 static void __cpuinit amd_k7_smp_check(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S	2010-08-27 00:27:50.051261000 +0200
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S	2010-08-27 00:57:35.531261000 +0200
@@ -978,7 +978,11 @@
 	RING0_INT_FRAME
 	pushl $0
 	CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET 4
+#ifdef CONFIG_GEODE_NOPL
+	pushl $do_nopl_emu
+#else
 	pushl $do_invalid_op
+#endif
 	CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET 4
 	jmp error_code
 	CFI_ENDPROC
--- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nopl_emu.c	2010-08-27 00:27:57.881261002 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+/*
+ *  linux/arch/x86/kernel/nopl_emu.c
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) 2002  Willy Tarreau
+ *  Copyright (C) 2010  Matteo Croce
+ */
+
+#include <asm/processor.h>
+#include <asm/traps.h>
+
+/* This code can be used to allow the AMD Geode to hopefully correctly execute
+ * some code which was originally compiled for an i686, by emulating NOPL,
+ * the only missing i686 instruction in the CPU
+ *
+ * Willy Tarreau <willy@...a-x.org>
+ * Matteo Croce <technoboy85@...il.com>
+ */
+
+static inline int do_1f(u8 *ip)
+{
+	int length = 3;
+	switch (*ip) {
+	case 0x84:
+		if (!ip[5])
+			length++;
+		else
+			return 0;
+	case 0x80:
+		if (!ip[4] && !ip[3])
+			length += 2;
+		else
+			return 0;
+	case 0x44:
+		if (!ip[2])
+			length++;
+		else
+			return 0;
+	case 0x40:
+		if (!ip[1])
+			length++;
+		else
+			return 0;
+	case 0x00:
+		return length;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline int do_0f(u8 *ip)
+{
+	if (*ip == 0x1f)
+		return do_1f(ip + 1);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline int do_66(u8 *ip)
+{
+	if (*ip == 0x90)
+		return 2;
+	if (*ip == 0x0f) {
+		int res = do_0f(ip + 1);
+		if (res)
+			return res + 1;
+		else
+			return 0;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline int do_start(u8 *ip)
+{
+	if (*ip == 0x0f)
+		return do_0f(ip + 1);
+	if (*ip == 0x66)
+		return do_66(ip + 1);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/* [do_nopl_emu] is called by exception 6 after an invalid opcode has been
+ * encountered. It will try to emulate it by doing nothing,
+ * and will send a SIGILL or SIGSEGV to the process if not possible.
+ * the NOPL can have variable length opcodes:
+
+bytes number	opcode
+	2	66 90
+	3	0f 1f 00
+	4	0f 1f 40 00
+	5	0f 1f 44 00 00
+	6	66 0f 1f 44 00 00
+	7	0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00
+	8	0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00
+	9	66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00
+*/
+void do_nopl_emu(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
+{
+	u8 *ip = (u8 *)instruction_pointer(regs);
+	int res = do_start(ip);
+
+	if (res) {
+		int i = 0;
+		do {
+			ip += res;
+			i++;
+			res = do_start(ip);
+		} while(res);
+		printk(KERN_DEBUG "geode_nopl: emulated %d instructions\n", i);
+		regs->ip = (typeof(regs->ip))ip;
+	} else
+		do_invalid_op(regs, error_code);
+}


-- 
Matteo Croce
OpenWrt developer
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