linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/trampoline] x86, reboot: Move the real-mode reboot code to an assembly file

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Date:	Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:09:21 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@...il.com>
CC:	mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	castet.matthieu@...e.fr, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, tglx@...utronix.de,
	rjw@...k.pl, hpa@...ux.intel.com, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/trampoline] x86, reboot: Move the real-mode reboot code
 to an assembly file

On 04/29/2011 08:16 AM, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 08:20, tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
> <hpa@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>> Commit-ID:  3d35ac346e981162eeba391e496faceed4753e7b
>> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/3d35ac346e981162eeba391e496faceed4753e7b
>> Author:     H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
>> AuthorDate: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:36:03 -0800
>> Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
>> CommitDate: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:05:34 -0800
>>
>> x86, reboot: Move the real-mode reboot code to an assembly file
>>
>> Move the real-mode reboot code out to an assembly file (reboot_32.S)
>> which is allocated using the common lowmem trampoline allocator.
>>
> 
> Hi. This one causes problems on at least a couple HP Compaq laptops:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33302
> 

Saw that... trying to figure out how to reproduce it.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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