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| author | Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com> | 2008-08-15 20:21:14 +0400 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-08-15 21:16:05 +0400 |
| commit | fc0091b3c86396afc8e6c273aff21671cf882ee1 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f9353c2211972a5123edc1844e5d665e690cbb7 /arch | |
| parent | 529d0e402eee62b7bfc89ec5b763a9a875bb49fb (diff) | |
| download | linux-fc0091b3c86396afc8e6c273aff21671cf882ee1.tar.xz | |
x86: change init_gdt to update the gdt via write_gdt, rather than a direct write.
By writing directly, a memory access violation can occur whilst
hotplugging a CPU if the entry was previously marked read-only.
Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/smpcommon.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpcommon.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpcommon.c index 99941b37eca0..397e309839dd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpcommon.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpcommon.c @@ -8,18 +8,21 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, this_cpu_off); EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(this_cpu_off); -/* Initialize the CPU's GDT. This is either the boot CPU doing itself - (still using the master per-cpu area), or a CPU doing it for a - secondary which will soon come up. */ +/* + * Initialize the CPU's GDT. This is either the boot CPU doing itself + * (still using the master per-cpu area), or a CPU doing it for a + * secondary which will soon come up. + */ __cpuinit void init_gdt(int cpu) { - struct desc_struct *gdt = get_cpu_gdt_table(cpu); + struct desc_struct gdt; - pack_descriptor(&gdt[GDT_ENTRY_PERCPU], - __per_cpu_offset[cpu], 0xFFFFF, + pack_descriptor(&gdt, __per_cpu_offset[cpu], 0xFFFFF, 0x2 | DESCTYPE_S, 0x8); + gdt.s = 1; - gdt[GDT_ENTRY_PERCPU].s = 1; + write_gdt_entry(get_cpu_gdt_table(cpu), + GDT_ENTRY_PERCPU, &gdt, DESCTYPE_S); per_cpu(this_cpu_off, cpu) = __per_cpu_offset[cpu]; per_cpu(cpu_number, cpu) = cpu; |