make the code work on x86/PIC. this code is only used in the demo, and the overhead of always running this is system noise, so don't bother bracketing with __i386__/__PIC__ defines. http://bugs.gentoo.org/456238 --- a/clearcache.c +++ b/clearcache.c @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ void clearcache(unsigned char *mem, unsigned size) #if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__) unsigned i, cl, eax, feat; /* get clflush unit and feature */ - asm("cpuid" : "=a" (eax), "=b" (cl), "=d" (feat) : "0" (1) : "cx"); + asm("xchg %%ebx, %%esi; cpuid; xchg %%esi, %%ebx;" : "=a" (eax), "=S" (cl), "=d" (feat) : "0" (1) : "cx"); if (!(feat & (1 << 19))) fallback_clearcache(); cl = ((cl >> 8) & 0xff) * 8;