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| author | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2010-05-10 17:32:46 +0400 |
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| committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2010-05-10 17:32:46 +0400 |
| commit | 0ae28a35bcb7984838acbf28bfba9c030f8b74f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 4f449d929b5df9e126e839f388ff0fd2b52028a0 /drivers/lguest/x86/core.c | |
| parent | 6f1f3d0ab5c3eeea9f04486481c25e9afdfa26c5 (diff) | |
| parent | b57f95a38233a2e73b679bea4a5453a1cc2a1cc9 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0ae28a35bcb7984838acbf28bfba9c030f8b74f0.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
Pull in the bdi fixes and ARM platform changes that other outstanding
patches depend on.
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/lguest/x86/core.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/lguest/x86/core.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/x86/core.c b/drivers/lguest/x86/core.c index fb2b7ef7868e..b4eb675a807e 100644 --- a/drivers/lguest/x86/core.c +++ b/drivers/lguest/x86/core.c @@ -288,6 +288,18 @@ static int emulate_insn(struct lg_cpu *cpu) insn = lgread(cpu, physaddr, u8); /* + * Around 2.6.33, the kernel started using an emulation for the + * cmpxchg8b instruction in early boot on many configurations. This + * code isn't paravirtualized, and it tries to disable interrupts. + * Ignore it, which will Mostly Work. + */ + if (insn == 0xfa) { + /* "cli", or Clear Interrupt Enable instruction. Skip it. */ + cpu->regs->eip++; + return 1; + } + + /* * 0x66 is an "operand prefix". It means it's using the upper 16 bits * of the eax register. */ |