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Subject[tip:x86/cpufeature] x86, cpufeature: Fix cpuid leaf 7 feature detection
Commit-ID:  2494b030ba9334c7dd7df9b9f7abe4eacc950ec5
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/2494b030ba9334c7dd7df9b9f7abe4eacc950ec5
Author: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 17 May 2011 12:33:26 -0700
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
CommitDate: Tue, 17 May 2011 13:36:29 -0700

x86, cpufeature: Fix cpuid leaf 7 feature detection

CPUID leaf 7, subleaf 0 returns the maximum subleaf in EAX, not the
number of subleaves. Since so far only subleaf 0 is defined (and only
the EBX bitfield) we do not need to qualify the test.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305660806-17519-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.36..39
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index e2ced00..173f3a3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -565,8 +565,7 @@ void __cpuinit get_cpu_cap(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)

cpuid_count(0x00000007, 0, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);

- if (eax > 0)
- c->x86_capability[9] = ebx;
+ c->x86_capability[9] = ebx;
}

/* AMD-defined flags: level 0x80000001 */

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