Re: Problems with oskit-mach

[OKUJI Yoshinori <okuji@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with oskit-mach
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:30:55 -0400 (EDT)

> It is certainly harmless to disable the code that uses PGE.  It is just an
> optimization.  It would be helpful to figure out exactly when it is and
> isn't safe to use this feature, by looking at the code in Linux or BSD that
> decides whether to try to use it.  

  You need to check bit 13 of %edx returned by "cpuid 1". This is a
releavant part of FreeBSD (in i386/i386/locore.s):

        movl    $1,%eax
        .byte   0x0f,0xa2                       # cpuid 1
        movl    %eax,R(_cpu_id)                 # store cpu_id
        movl    %edx,R(_cpu_feature)            # store cpu_feature
[snip]
        testl   $CPUID_PGE, R(_cpu_feature)
        jz      1f
        movl    %cr4, %eax
        orl     $CR4_PGE, %eax
        movl    %eax, %cr4
1:

  Thus, this kind of code would be enough:

#include <oskit/x86/cpuid.h>
#include <oskit/x86/proc_reg.h>

  ...

  struct cpu_info cpu_info;

  cpuid (&cpu_info);
  if (cpu_info.feature_flags & CPUF_PAGE_GLOBAL_EXT)
    set_cr4 (get_cr4 () & CR4_PGE);

Okuji


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