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| author | James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> | 2007-01-22 09:18:31 -0600 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-01-22 19:39:36 -0800 |
| commit | 9ee79a3d372fcb6729893437f4923c5efd1f85db (patch) | |
| tree | 6a220d2935ed4c539e41a9ad7057bfbc21deafd8 /include/asm-i386 | |
| parent | ebcccd14b73831fa7fbc197e1d2b9c710a65731e (diff) | |
| download | lwn-9ee79a3d372fcb6729893437f4923c5efd1f85db.tar.gz lwn-9ee79a3d372fcb6729893437f4923c5efd1f85db.zip | |
[PATCH] x86: fix PDA variables to work during boot
The current PDA code, which went in in post 2.6.19 has a flaw in that it
doesn't correctly cycle the GDT and %GS segment through the boot PDA,
the CPU PDA and finally the per-cpu PDA.
The bug generally doesn't show up if the boot CPU id is zero, but
everything falls apart for a non zero boot CPU id. The basically kills
voyager which is perfectly capable of doing non zero CPU id boots, so
voyager currently won't boot without this.
The fix is to be careful and actually do the GDT setups correctly.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-i386')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-i386/processor.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/processor.h b/include/asm-i386/processor.h index a52d65440429..359f10b54f59 100644 --- a/include/asm-i386/processor.h +++ b/include/asm-i386/processor.h @@ -743,6 +743,7 @@ extern void enable_sep_cpu(void); extern int sysenter_setup(void); extern int init_gdt(int cpu, struct task_struct *idle); +extern void cpu_set_gdt(int); extern void secondary_cpu_init(void); #endif /* __ASM_I386_PROCESSOR_H */ |