@wekers trying out NSD 4.10.0 on FreeBSD reported nsd-checkzone crashing with "Illegal instruction (core dumped)" (see NLnetLabs/nsd#361). @wekers was kind enough to help out with debugging and it seems there's a bug in ISA detection. The ebx for CPUID with eax=0x7 has bit 5 set (AVX2). However, basing the decision on whether AVX2 is actually available on the system requires bit 28 (AVX instructions supported) being set in ecx with eax=0x1. Apart from that, we must also check if the operating system properly supports it.
Peter Cordes (as always) provides excellent explanations (1, 2) on Stack Overflow.
See Félix Cloutier's pages on CPUID and XGETBV for detailed information on the aforementioned instructions.
@wekers trying out NSD 4.10.0 on FreeBSD reported
nsd-checkzonecrashing with "Illegal instruction (core dumped)" (see NLnetLabs/nsd#361). @wekers was kind enough to help out with debugging and it seems there's a bug in ISA detection. TheebxforCPUIDwitheax=0x7has bit 5 set (AVX2). However, basing the decision on whether AVX2 is actually available on the system requires bit 28 (AVX instructions supported) being set inecxwitheax=0x1. Apart from that, we must also check if the operating system properly supports it.Peter Cordes (as always) provides excellent explanations (1, 2) on Stack Overflow.
See Félix Cloutier's pages on CPUID and XGETBV for detailed information on the aforementioned instructions.