Use the faster immediate values for F00F bug handling in do_page_fault. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers --- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c | 4 ++++ arch/i386/mm/fault.c | 3 ++- include/asm-i386/processor.h | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c 2007-06-15 16:13:50.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c 2007-06-15 16:14:06.000000000 -0400 @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #ifdef CONFIG_EISA #include @@ -1149,6 +1150,8 @@ #endif /* CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION */ #ifdef CONFIG_X86_F00F_BUG +immediate_t __read_mostly f00f_bug_fix; + void __init trap_init_f00f_bug(void) { __set_fixmap(FIX_F00F_IDT, __pa(&idt_table), PAGE_KERNEL_RO); @@ -1159,6 +1162,7 @@ */ idt_descr.address = fix_to_virt(FIX_F00F_IDT); load_idt(&idt_descr); + immediate_arm(&f00f_bug_fix); } #endif Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/i386/mm/fault.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/i386/mm/fault.c 2007-06-15 16:13:51.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/i386/mm/fault.c 2007-06-15 16:14:06.000000000 -0400 @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -477,7 +478,7 @@ /* * Pentium F0 0F C7 C8 bug workaround. */ - if (boot_cpu_data.f00f_bug) { + if (unlikely(immediate(f00f_bug_fix))) { unsigned long nr; nr = (address - idt_descr.address) >> 3; Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-i386/processor.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/include/asm-i386/processor.h 2007-06-15 16:13:51.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-i386/processor.h 2007-06-15 16:14:06.000000000 -0400 @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include /* flag for disabling the tsc */ @@ -102,6 +103,8 @@ extern struct tss_struct doublefault_tss; DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct tss_struct, init_tss); +extern immediate_t __read_mostly f00f_bug_fix; + #ifdef CONFIG_SMP extern struct cpuinfo_x86 cpu_data[]; #define current_cpu_data cpu_data[smp_processor_id()] -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/