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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2007-05-02 19:27:16 +0200
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2007-05-02 19:27:16 +0200
commitc5413fbe894924ddb8aa474a4d4da52e7a6c7e0b (patch)
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parent1956c73bb5bf81ee577ed7d3c64e3cad876ad2a5 (diff)
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[PATCH] i386: Fix UP gdt bugs
Fixes two problems with the GDT when compiling for uniprocessor: - There's no percpu segment, so trying to load its selector into %fs fails. Use a null selector instead. - The real gdt needs to be loaded at some point. Do it in cpu_init(). Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c13
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c12
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 27e00565f5e4..794d593c47eb 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -638,6 +638,18 @@ struct pt_regs * __devinit idle_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
return regs;
}
+/* Current gdt points %fs at the "master" per-cpu area: after this,
+ * it's on the real one. */
+void switch_to_new_gdt(void)
+{
+ struct Xgt_desc_struct gdt_descr;
+
+ gdt_descr.address = (long)get_cpu_gdt_table(smp_processor_id());
+ gdt_descr.size = GDT_SIZE - 1;
+ load_gdt(&gdt_descr);
+ asm("mov %0, %%fs" : : "r" (__KERNEL_PERCPU) : "memory");
+}
+
/*
* cpu_init() initializes state that is per-CPU. Some data is already
* initialized (naturally) in the bootstrap process, such as the GDT
@@ -668,6 +680,7 @@ void __cpuinit cpu_init(void)
}
load_idt(&idt_descr);
+ switch_to_new_gdt();
/*
* Set up and load the per-CPU TSS and LDT
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
index f79b6233db78..7c1dbef399cd 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1177,18 +1177,6 @@ void __init native_smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
smp_boot_cpus(max_cpus);
}
-/* Current gdt points %fs at the "master" per-cpu area: after this,
- * it's on the real one. */
-static inline void switch_to_new_gdt(void)
-{
- struct Xgt_desc_struct gdt_descr;
-
- gdt_descr.address = (long)get_cpu_gdt_table(smp_processor_id());
- gdt_descr.size = GDT_SIZE - 1;
- load_gdt(&gdt_descr);
- asm("mov %0, %%fs" : : "r" (__KERNEL_PERCPU) : "memory");
-}
-
void __init native_smp_prepare_boot_cpu(void)
{
unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();