Commit 2b107d93 authored by Jacob Pan's avatar Jacob Pan Committed by H. Peter Anvin

x86: Avoid check hlt for newer cpus

Check hlt instruction was targeted for some older CPUs. It is an expensive
operation in that it takes 4 ticks to break out the check.  We can avoid
such check completely for newer x86 cpus (family >= 5).

[ hpa: corrected family > 5 to family >= 5 ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273269585-14346-1-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent 722154e4
......@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ static void __init check_fpu(void)
static void __init check_hlt(void)
{
if (paravirt_enabled())
if (boot_cpu_data.x86 >= 5 || paravirt_enabled())
return;
printk(KERN_INFO "Checking 'hlt' instruction... ");
......
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