[x86] Disable AVX unless the operating system explicitly claims to support it.

src/ia32/assembler-ia32.cc

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 #include <cstring>
 
 #if V8_TARGET_ARCH_IA32
 
 #if V8_OS_MACOSX
 #include <sys/sysctl.h>
 #endif
 
 #include "src/base/bits.h"
 #include "src/base/cpu.h"
-#if V8_OS_WIN
-#include "src/base/win32-headers.h"
-#endif
 #include "src/disassembler.h"
 #include "src/macro-assembler.h"
 #include "src/v8.h"
 
 namespace v8 {
 namespace internal {
 
 // -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Implementation of CpuFeatures
 
 namespace {
 
 bool EnableAVX() {
+  // Check whether OS claims to support AVX.
+  int flags = 0;
+#if V8_CC_GNU
+  // Check xgetbv; this uses a .byte sequence instead of the instruction
+  // directly because older assemblers do not include support for xgetbv and
+  // there is no easy way to conditionally compile based on the assembler used.
+  asm volatile(".byte 0x0f, 0x01, 0xd0" : "=a"(flags) : "c"(0) : "%edx");
+#elif V8_CC_MSVC
+  __asm {
+    xor ecx, ecx  // ecx = 0
+    // Use the raw opcode for xgetbv for compatibility with older
+    // toolchains.
+        __asm _emit 0x0f __asm _emit 0x01 __asm _emit 0xd0
+        mov flags, eax
+  }
+#endif
+  if ((flags & 6) == 0) return false;
 #if V8_OS_MACOSX
   // Mac OS X up to 10.9 has a bug where AVX transitions were indeed being
   // caused by ISRs, so we detect that here and disable AVX in that case.
   char buffer[128];
   size_t buffer_size = arraysize(buffer);
-  int ctl_name[] = { CTL_KERN , KERN_OSRELEASE };
+  int ctl_name[] = {CTL_KERN, KERN_OSRELEASE};
   if (sysctl(ctl_name, 2, buffer, &buffer_size, nullptr, 0) != 0) {
     V8_Fatal(__FILE__, __LINE__, "V8 failed to get kernel version");
   }
   // The buffer now contains a string of the form XX.YY.ZZ, where
   // XX is the major kernel version component.
   char* period_pos = strchr(buffer, '.');
   DCHECK_NOT_NULL(period_pos);
   *period_pos = '\0';
   long kernel_version_major = strtol(buffer, nullptr, 10);  // NOLINT
   if (kernel_version_major <= 13) return false;
-#elif V8_OS_WIN
-  // The same problem seems to appear on Windows XP and Vista.
-  OSVERSIONINFOEX osvi;
-  DWORDLONG mask = 0;
-  memset(&osvi, 0, sizeof(osvi));
-  osvi.dwOSVersionInfoSize = sizeof(osvi);
-  osvi.dwMajorVersion = 6;
-  osvi.dwMinorVersion = 1;
-  VER_SET_CONDITION(mask, VER_MAJORVERSION, VER_GREATER_EQUAL);
-  VER_SET_CONDITION(mask, VER_MINORVERSION, VER_GREATER_EQUAL);
-  if (!VerifyVersionInfo(&osvi, VER_MAJORVERSION | VER_MINORVERSION, mask)) {
-    return false;
-  }
 #endif  // V8_OS_MACOSX
   return FLAG_enable_avx;
 }
 
 }  // namespace
 
 
 void CpuFeatures::ProbeImpl(bool cross_compile) {
   base::CPU cpu;
   CHECK(cpu.has_sse2());  // SSE2 support is mandatory.
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     fprintf(coverage_log, "%s\n", file_line);
     fflush(coverage_log);
   }
 }
 
 #endif
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal
 
 #endif  // V8_TARGET_ARCH_IA32