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authorLuca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>2011-05-25 20:43:31 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-06-23 15:28:37 -0700
commit7407c21c763cc40b1ec8da35a56c872ecd36f35b (patch)
treefa7b459c1a5b8c3fb30007b7f6cd992cfc5c13f6
parent2776f63f585549c582b34db8e0b9688caead22ef (diff)
i8k: Avoid lahf in 64-bit code
commit bc1f419c76a2d6450413ce4349f4e4a07be011d5 upstream. i8k uses lahf to read the flag register in 64-bit code; early x86-64 CPUs, however, lack this instruction and we get an invalid opcode exception at runtime. Use pushf to load the flag register into the stack instead. Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com> Reported-by: Jeff Rickman <jrickman@myamigos.us> Tested-by: Jeff Rickman <jrickman@myamigos.us> Tested-by: Harry G McGavran Jr <w5pny@arrl.net> Cc: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/i8k.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/i8k.c b/drivers/char/i8k.c
index 4365717161c6..1e116ace13b2 100644
--- a/drivers/char/i8k.c
+++ b/drivers/char/i8k.c
@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ static int i8k_smm(struct smm_regs *regs)
"movl %%edi,20(%%rax)\n\t"
"popq %%rdx\n\t"
"movl %%edx,0(%%rax)\n\t"
- "lahf\n\t"
- "shrl $8,%%eax\n\t"
+ "pushfq\n\t"
+ "popq %%rax\n\t"
"andl $1,%%eax\n"
:"=a"(rc)
: "a"(regs)