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* [PATCH] x86/asm: Remove CR4 read fault handler
@ 2026-09-05 22:55 Brian Gerst
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From: Brian Gerst @ 2026-09-05 22:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, x86
  Cc: Thomas Gleixner, Borislav Petkov, Ingo Molnar, H . Peter Anvin,
	Brian Gerst

Remove the fault handler from native_read_cr4() since 486 support has
been removed.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h | 13 -------------
 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
index 46aa2c9c1bda..6c80f69cf62b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
@@ -46,20 +46,7 @@ static __always_inline void native_write_cr3(unsigned long val)
 static inline unsigned long native_read_cr4(void)
 {
 	unsigned long val;
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-	/*
-	 * This could fault if CR4 does not exist.  Non-existent CR4
-	 * is functionally equivalent to CR4 == 0.  Keep it simple and pretend
-	 * that CR4 == 0 on CPUs that don't have CR4.
-	 */
-	asm volatile("1: mov %%cr4, %0\n"
-		     "2:\n"
-		     _ASM_EXTABLE(1b, 2b)
-		     : "=r" (val) : "0" (0));
-#else
-	/* CR4 always exists on x86_64. */
 	asm volatile("mov %%cr4,%0" : "=r" (val));
-#endif
 	return val;
 }
 

base-commit: ea789738cbf82b72f5495cd1e2b231a917e0e6d5
-- 
2.55.0


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