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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> | 2006-08-30 19:37:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-08-30 16:05:15 -0700 |
| commit | 29fe5f3bafb644c33269fb0f2a719d4809a07332 (patch) | |
| tree | 12bac74201557aaf93a664df04622a90626f2c8c /arch | |
| parent | c05991ed12fd71e539dd8de8f5663450cd0c934c (diff) | |
| download | lwn-29fe5f3bafb644c33269fb0f2a719d4809a07332.tar.gz lwn-29fe5f3bafb644c33269fb0f2a719d4809a07332.zip | |
[PATCH] i386: Add kernel thread stack frame termination for properly stopping stack unwinds.
One open question: Should this added push perhaps be made conditional
upon CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND or CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO?
[AK: not needed, these are all very slow paths]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/head.S | 14 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/head.S b/arch/i386/kernel/head.S index eb79aa2fa8bb..a6b8bd89aa27 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/head.S +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/head.S @@ -317,20 +317,14 @@ is386: movl $2,%ecx # set MP movl %eax,%gs lldt %ax cld # gcc2 wants the direction flag cleared at all times + pushl %eax # fake return address #ifdef CONFIG_SMP movb ready, %cl movb $1, ready - cmpb $0,%cl - je 1f # the first CPU calls start_kernel - # all other CPUs call initialize_secondary - call initialize_secondary - jmp L6 -1: + cmpb $0,%cl # the first CPU calls start_kernel + jne initialize_secondary # all other CPUs call initialize_secondary #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ - call start_kernel -L6: - jmp L6 # main should never return here, but - # just in case, we know what happens. + jmp start_kernel /* * We depend on ET to be correct. This checks for 287/387. |