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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-09-09 12:23:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-09-09 12:23:41 -0700
commit93811d94f7e9bcfeed7d6ba75ea5d9c80a70ab95 (patch)
treece7e4e6056b575138777793520dded9cb3638056 /arch
parentea81e2722e55ba0269c92f266763e445dcffb973 (diff)
parentd6be118a97ce51ca84035270f91c2bccecbfac5f (diff)
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: fix memmap=exactmap boot argument x86: disable static NOPLs on 32 bits xen: fix 2.6.27-rc5 xen balloon driver warnings
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu13
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/e820.c2
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
index 2c518fbc52e..b225219c448 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
@@ -382,14 +382,17 @@ config X86_OOSTORE
# P6_NOPs are a relatively minor optimization that require a family >=
# 6 processor, except that it is broken on certain VIA chips.
# Furthermore, AMD chips prefer a totally different sequence of NOPs
-# (which work on all CPUs). As a result, disallow these if we're
-# compiling X86_GENERIC but not X86_64 (these NOPs do work on all
-# x86-64 capable chips); the list of processors in the right-hand clause
-# are the cores that benefit from this optimization.
+# (which work on all CPUs). In addition, it looks like Virtual PC
+# does not understand them.
+#
+# As a result, disallow these if we're not compiling for X86_64 (these
+# NOPs do work on all x86-64 capable chips); the list of processors in
+# the right-hand clause are the cores that benefit from this optimization.
#
config X86_P6_NOP
def_bool y
- depends on (X86_64 || !X86_GENERIC) && (M686 || MPENTIUMII || MPENTIUMIII || MPENTIUMM || MCORE2 || MPENTIUM4 || MPSC)
+ depends on X86_64
+ depends on (MCORE2 || MPENTIUM4 || MPSC)
config X86_TSC
def_bool y
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
index 9af89078f7b..66e48aa2dd1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -1203,7 +1203,7 @@ static int __init parse_memmap_opt(char *p)
if (!p)
return -EINVAL;
- if (!strcmp(p, "exactmap")) {
+ if (!strncmp(p, "exactmap", 8)) {
#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
/*
* If we are doing a crash dump, we still need to know