Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 14:25:12 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, philip-freebsd1@soeberg.net Subject: Re: Runtime check for PAE option on BSD 6+ i386 Message-ID: <201105031425.12710.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110503174339.GI48734@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <4DBFFEC2.4010506@soeberg.net> <201105031144.32862.jhb@freebsd.org> <20110503174339.GI48734@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On Tuesday, May 03, 2011 1:43:39 pm Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:44:32AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Tuesday, May 03, 2011 9:10:26 am Philip Soeberg wrote:
> > > Hi fellow FreeBSD hackers,
> > >
> > > I've been using the following poor-man's approach in my driver init for
> > > ages in an attempt at detecting PAE option on BSD 6 (or greater) i386
> > > kernels, as I depend on dmabus(9) but provide a loadable kernel module only.
> > >
> > > >>>
> > > if (sizeof(void*) == 4) {
> > > if (((uint64_t)(cnt.v_page_count * cnt.v_page_size) / 1073741824)
> > > >= 4) {
> > > printf("FreeBSD i386 detected with PAE option enabled. FreeBSD
> > > PAE type\n");
> > > printf("kernels does not support loadable modules which use DMA.
> > > Please\n");
> > > printf("reconfigure your kernel for non-PAE or switch to amd64
> > > kernel.\n");
> > > return EFAULT;
> > > }
> > > }
> > > <<<
> >
> > Hmmm, even this isn't really accurate as some folks may choose to enable PAE
> > even with < 4GB to get PG_NX functionality.
> >
> > > afaik there's a sysctl method of checking this per BSD7 (or is it 8?),
> > > but what about BSD6? Any hints on how I can runtime detect the above?
> >
> > Definitely a kern.features.pae sysctl in 7. I don't see anything similar in
> > 6.
>
> Read %cr4 and test the bit there.
Oh, cute. :)
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John Baldwin
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