Author: Andreas Beckmann Description: fix cpuid inline assembly the old code zeroed the upper half of %rbx --- a/helper_functions.c +++ b/helper_functions.c @@ -101,13 +101,7 @@ static inline void cpuid (unsigned int i unsigned int *ecx, unsigned int *edx) { unsigned int _eax = info, _ebx, _ecx, _edx; - asm volatile ("mov %%ebx, %%edi;" // save ebx (for PIC) - "cpuid;" - "mov %%ebx, %%esi;" // pass to caller - "mov %%edi, %%ebx;" // restore ebx - :"+a" (_eax), "=S" (_ebx), "=c" (_ecx), "=d" (_edx) - : /* inputs: eax is handled above */ - :"edi" /* clobbers: we hit edi directly */); + asm volatile ("cpuid\n\t" : "+a" (_eax), "=b" (_ebx), "=c" (_ecx), "=d" (_edx) : : ); if (eax) *eax = _eax; if (ebx) *ebx = _ebx; if (ecx) *ecx = _ecx;