This patch uses the /sys/firmware/memmap interface provided in the last patch
on the x86 architecture when E820 is used. The patch copies the E820
memory map very early, and registers the E820 map afterwards via
firmware_map_add_early().
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: yhlu.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds /sys/firmware/memmap interface that represents the BIOS
(or Firmware) provided memory map. The tree looks like:
/sys/firmware/memmap/0/start (hex number)
end (hex number)
type (string)
... /1/start
end
type
With the following shell snippet one can print the memory map in the same form
the kernel prints itself when booting on x86 (the E820 map).
--------- 8< --------------------------
#!/bin/sh
cd /sys/firmware/memmap
for dir in * ; do
start=$(cat $dir/start)
end=$(cat $dir/end)
type=$(cat $dir/type)
printf "%016x-%016x (%s)\n" $start $[ $end +1] "$type"
done
--------- >8 --------------------------
That patch only provides the needed interface:
1. The sysfs interface.
2. The structure and enumeration definition.
3. The function firmware_map_add() and firmware_map_add_early()
that should be called from architecture code (E820/EFI, for
example) to add the contents to the interface.
If the kernel is compiled without CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP, the interface does
nothing without cluttering the architecture-specific code with #ifdef's.
The purpose of the new interface is kexec: While /proc/iomem represents
the *used* memory map (e.g. modified via kernel parameters like 'memmap'
and 'mem'), the /sys/firmware/memmap tree represents the unmodified memory
map provided via the firmware. So kexec can:
- use the original memory map for rebooting,
- use the /proc/iomem for setting up the ELF core headers for kdump
case that should only represent the memory of the system.
The patch has been tested on i386 and x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: yhlu.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
we already have the same srat handling interface for 32bit.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rather than using _PAGE_GLOBAL - which not all CPUs support - to test
CPA, use one of the reserved-for-software-use PTE flags instead. This
allows CPA testing to work on CPUs which don't support PGD.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Older x86-32 processors do not support global mappings (PGD), so must
only use it if the processor supports it.
The _PAGE_KERNEL* flags always have _PAGE_KERNEL set, since logically
we always want it set.
This is OK even on processors which do not support PGD, since all
_PAGE flags are masked with __supported_pte_mask before being turned
into a real in-pagetable pte. On 32-bit systems, __supported_pte_mask
is initialized to not contain _PAGE_GLOBAL, and it is then added if
the CPU is found to support it.
The x86-32 code used to use __PAGE_KERNEL/__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC for this
purpose, but they're now redundant and can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Consistently set _PAGE_GLOBAL in _PAGE_KERNEL flags. This makes 32-
and 64-bit code consistent, and removes some special cases where
__PAGE_KERNEL* did not have _PAGE_GLOBAL set, causing confusion as a
result of the inconsistencies.
This patch only affects x86-64, which generally always supports PGD.
The x86-32 patch is next.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When allocating a new pud, unconditionally populate the pgd (why did
we bother to create a new pud if we weren't going to populate it?).
This will only happen if the pgd slot was empty, since any existing
pud will be reused.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
call it right after we are done with MADT/mptable handling, instead of
doing that in setup_per_cpu_areas() later on...
this way for_possible_cpu() can be used early.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
when acpi=off, cpu_to_apicid is ready after get_smp_config
so need to move init_cpu_to_node after it.
otherwise, we will get wrong cpu->node mapping, and it will rely on
amd_detect_cmp() to correct it - but that is too late as
setup_per_cpu_data is already called before that so we will get
per_cpu_data on the wrong node.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
move out e820_register_active_regions from non numa zones_sizes_init()
and remove numa version zones_sizes_init().
and let 32 bit call remove_all_active_ranges() in setup_arch() directly
like 64-bit
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
so it has a more meaningful name.
also change it to static.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch fixes a small bug in documentation: x86_64 also has now
the ability to build a relocatable kernel.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch removes the need of the crashkernel=...@offset parameter to define
a fixed offset for crashkernel reservation. That feature can be used together
with a relocatable kernel where the kexec-tools relocate the kernel and
get the actual offset from /proc/iomem.
The use case is a kernel where the .text+.data+.bss is after 16M physical
memory (debug kernel with lockdep on x86_64 can cause that) which caused a
major pain in autoconfiguration in our distribution.
Also, that patch unifies crashdump architectures a bit since IA64 has
that semantics from the very beginning of the kdump port.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
Cc: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
e820_search_gap also take a end_addr parameter to limit search from
start_addr to end_addr.
Signed-off-by: AloK N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "lenb@kernel.org" <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* When CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is set, the node passed to
node_to_cpumask and node_to_cpumask_ptr should be validated.
If invalid, then a dump_stack is performed and a zero cpumask
is returned.
v2: Slightly different version to remove a compiler warning.
v3: Redone to reflect moving setup.c -> setup_percpu.c
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> -tip auto-testing found pagetable corruption (CPA self-test failure):
>
> [ 32.956015] CPA self-test:
> [ 32.958822] 4k 2048 large 508 gb 0 x 2556[ffff880000000000-ffff88003fe00000] miss 0
> [ 32.964000] CPA ffff88001d54e000: bad pte 1d4000e3
> [ 32.968000] CPA ffff88001d54e000: unexpected level 2
> [ 32.972000] CPA ffff880022c5d000: bad pte 22c000e3
> [ 32.976000] CPA ffff880022c5d000: unexpected level 2
> [ 32.980000] CPA ffff8800200ce000: bad pte 200000e3
> [ 32.984000] CPA ffff8800200ce000: unexpected level 2
> [ 32.988000] CPA ffff8800210f0000: bad pte 210000e3
>
> config and full log can be found at:
>
> http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Mon_Jun_30_11_11_51_CEST_2008.bad
> http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/log-Mon_Jun_30_11_11_51_CEST_2008.bad
Phew. OK, I've worked this out. Short version is that's it's a false
alarm, and there was no real failure here. Long version:
* I changed the code to create the physical mapping pagetables to
reuse any existing mapping rather than replace it. Specifically,
reusing an pud pointed to by the pgd caused this symptom to appear.
* The specific PUD being reused is the one created statically in
head_64.S, which creates an initial 1GB mapping.
* That mapping doesn't have _PAGE_GLOBAL set on it, due to the
inconsistency between __PAGE_* and PAGE_*.
* The CPA test attempts to clear _PAGE_GLOBAL, and then checks to
see that the resulting range is 1) shattered into 4k pages, and 2)
has no _PAGE_GLOBAL.
* However, since it didn't have _PAGE_GLOBAL on that range to start
with, change_page_attr_clear() had nothing to do, and didn't
bother shattering the range,
* resulting in the reported messages
The simple fix is to set _PAGE_GLOBAL in level2_ident_pgt.
An additional fix to make CPA testing more robust by using some other
pagetable bit (one of the unused available-to-software ones). This
would solve spurious CPA test warnings under Xen which uses _PAGE_GLOBAL
for its own purposes (ie, not under guest control).
Also, we should revisit the use of _PAGE_GLOBAL in asm-x86/pgtable.h,
and use it consistently, and drop MAKE_GLOBAL. The first time I
proposed it it caused breakages in the very early CPA code; with luck
that's all fixed now.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kva ram already mapped right after away, so don't need to get that for low ram.
avoid wasting one copy of pgdat.
also add node id in early_res name in case we get it from find_e820_area.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ying Huang would like setup_data to be reserved, but not included in the
no save range.
Here we try to modify the e820 table to reserve that range early.
also add that in early_res in case bootloader messes up with the ramdisk.
other solution would be
1. add early_res_to_highmem...
2. early_res_to_e820...
but they could reserve another type memory wrongly, if early_res has some
resource reserved early, and not needed later, but it is not removed from
early_res in time. Like the RAMDISK (already handled).
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Tested-by: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
now that the early-ioremap code is unified, move the prototypes too from
io_32.h to io.h.
this fixes:
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:531: error: implicit declaration of function ‘early_ioremap_init'
on 64-bit.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Looks like the setup.c unification missed the early_ioremap init from
the early_ioremap unification. Unconditionally call early_ioremap_init().
needed for "x86/paravirt: groundwork for 64-bit Xen support".
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
nmi_watchdog is set to NMI_NONE by default (ie disabled) on _any_
mode so lets fix documentation too.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
change the enable_local_apic to static force_enable_local_apic for 32bit
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
use PMD_SHIFT to calculate boundary also adjust size for pre-allocated
table size
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
when 64bit resource is not enabled, we get:
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: In function ‘e820_reserve_resources’:
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c:1217: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
because res->start/end is resource_t aka u32. it will overflow.
fix it with temp end of u64
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
some ram-end boundary only has page alignment, instead of 2M alignment.
v2: make init_memory_mapping more solid: start could be any value other than 0
v3: fix NON PAE by handling left over in kernel_physical_mapping
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Make sure SWAPGS and PARAVIRT_ADJUST_EXCEPTION_FRAME are properly
defined when CONFIG_PARAVIRT is off.
Fixes Ingo's build failure:
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: Assembler messages:
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1201: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1205: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1209: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1213: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
instead of calling it from trap_init()
also move init ioapic mapping out of apic_32.c
so 32 bit do same as 64 bit
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> that fixed the build but now we've got a boot crash with this config:
>
> time.c: Detected 2010.304 MHz processor.
> spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
> IP: [<0000000000000000>]
> PGD 0
> Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
> Oops: 0010 [1] SMP
> CPU 0
>
I don't know if this will fix this bug, but it's definitely a bugfix.
It was trashing random pages by overwriting them with pagetables...
Don't trash a large pmd's data when mapping physical memory.
This is a bugfix for "x86_64: adjust mapping of physical pagetables
to work with Xen".
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>
>
>>> It quickly broke the build in testing:
>>>
>>> include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function ‘paravirt_pgd_free':
>>> include/asm/pgalloc.h:14: error: parameter name omitted
>>> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: In file included from
>>> arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c:51:include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function
>>> ‘paravirt_pgd_free':
>>> include/asm/pgalloc.h:14: error: parameter name omitted
>>>
>>>
>> No, looks like my fault. The non-PARAVIRT version of
>> paravirt_pgd_free() is:
>>
>> static inline void paravirt_pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *) {}
>>
>> but C doesn't like missing parameter names, even if unused.
>>
>> This should fix it:
>>
>
> that fixed the build but now we've got a boot crash with this config:
>
> time.c: Detected 2010.304 MHz processor.
> spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
> IP: [<0000000000000000>]
> PGD 0
> Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
> Oops: 0010 [1] SMP
> CPU 0
>
> with:
>
> http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Thu_Jun_26_12_46_46_CEST_2008.bad
>
Use SWAPGS_UNSAFE_STACK in ia32entry.S in the places where the active
stack is the usermode stack.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
do that in init_memory_mapping
also remove one init_ohci1394_dma_on_all_controllers
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
asm-x86/paravirt.h already have protection with CONFIG_PARAVIRT inside
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch brings back limiting of the E820 map when a user-defined
E820 map is specified. While the behaviour of i386 (32 bit) was to limit
the E820 map (and /proc/iomem), the behaviour of x86-64 (64 bit) was not to
limit.
That patch limits the E820 map again for both x86 architectures.
Code was tested for compilation and booting on a 32 bit and 64 bit system.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
Cc: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The patch "x86: introduce init_memory_mapping for 32bit" does not allocate
enough space for PTEs if the CPU does not implement PSE.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
64-bit Xen pushes a couple of extra words onto an exception frame.
Add a hook to deal with them.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It's never safe to call a swapgs pvop when the user stack is current -
it must be inline replaced. Rather than making a call, the
SWAPGS_UNSAFE_STACK pvop always just puts "swapgs" as a placeholder,
which must either be replaced inline or trap'n'emulated (somehow).
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In a 64-bit system, we need separate sysret/sysexit operations to
return to a 32-bit userspace.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citirx.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There's no need to combine restoring the user rsp within the sysret
pvop, so split it out. This makes the pvop's semantics closer to the
machine instruction.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citirx.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Don't conflate sysret and sysexit; they're different instructions with
different semantics, and may be in use at the same time (at least
within the same kernel, depending on whether its an Intel or AMD
system).
sysexit - just return to userspace, does no register restoration of
any kind; must explicitly atomically enable interrupts.
sysret - reloads flags from r11, so no need to explicitly enable
interrupts on 64-bit, responsible for restoring usermode %gs
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citirx.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is needed when the kernel is running on RING3, such as under Xen.
x86_64 has a weird feature that makes it #GP on iret when SS is a null
descriptor.
This need to be tested on bare metal to make sure it doesn't cause any
problems. AMD specs say SS is always ignored (except on iret?).
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
