linux-kernel - [PATCHv7 06/19] x86/boot/compressed/64: Detect and handle 5-level paging at boot-time

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Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:55:40 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCHv7 06/19] x86/boot/compressed/64: Detect and handle 5-level paging at boot-time

This patch prepare decompression code to boot-time switching between 4-
and 5-level paging.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
index b4a5d284391c..09c85e8558eb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
@@ -288,6 +288,28 @@ ENTRY(startup_64)
 	leaq	boot_stack_end(%rbx), %rsp
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL
+	/* Preserve rbx across cpuid */
+	movq	%rbx, %r8
+
+	/* Check if leaf 7 is supported */
+	xorl	%eax, %eax
+	cpuid
+	cmpl	$7, %eax
+	jb	lvl5
+
+	/*
+	 * Check if la57 is supported.
+	 * The feature is enumerated with CPUID.(EAX=07H, ECX=0):ECX[bit 16]
+	 */
+	movl	$7, %eax
+	xorl	%ecx, %ecx
+	cpuid
+	andl	$(1 << 16), %ecx
+	jz	lvl5
+
+	/* Restore rbx */
+	movq	%r8, %rbx
+
 	/* Check if 5-level paging has already enabled */
 	movq	%cr4, %rax
 	testl	$X86_CR4_LA57, %eax
@@ -327,6 +349,8 @@ ENTRY(startup_64)
 	pushq	%rax
 	lretq
 lvl5:
+	/* Restore rbx */
+	movq	%r8, %rbx
 #endif
 
 	/* Zero EFLAGS */
-- 
2.14.1