Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10007051307000.831-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > this is aesthetically bogus. i think you should always print CR4,
> > no matter whether it's 0 or not.
>
> If I remember correctly, there are CPU's out there that will bomb out
> horribly when you access %cr4 if the register doesn't exist.
>
They will #GP, yes. If you want to read %cr4 unconditionally you have
to be prepared to trap the #GP.
>
> Do I remember wrong?
>
> I'd certainly agree with printing out cr4 even if it would be zero, I just
> disagree very much with adding a register read to the dump output that may
> cause an infinite regression of traps..
>
Indeed. %cr4 was introduced in the P5; I believe it is probably a
valid assumption that if the CPU has CPUID it also has %cr4 (the later
486's which had CPUID also had VME, so they must have supported %cr4.)
-hpa
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