From: Luca Tettamanti Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 18:43:31 +0000 (+0200) Subject: i8k: Avoid lahf in 64-bit code X-Git-Tag: v2.6.35.14~124 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=500c1e95d2e4a846025091c8cabee761578fc6cc;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git 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 Reported-by: Jeff Rickman Tested-by: Jeff Rickman Tested-by: Harry G McGavran Jr Cc: Massimo Dal Zotto Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- diff --git a/drivers/char/i8k.c b/drivers/char/i8k.c index 0bd4364fa39df..f830512f5324c 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)