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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0711041512530.15101@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 15:17:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Mikael Petterson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86 setup: correct booting on 486DX4
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Apparently, the 486DX4 does not correctly serialize a mov to %cr0, so
> we really do need the far jump immediately afterwards.
Hmm. I'm not sure I agree with the commit message.
This is documented behaviour on i386 and i486: instruction decoding is
decoupled from execution, so things that change processor mode have to do
a jump to make sure that %cr0 changes take effect.
I'm not entirely sure that it needs to be a long-jump, btw. I think any
regular branch is sufficient. You obviously *do* need to make the long
jump later (to reload %cs in protected mode), but I'm not sure it's needed
in that place. I forget the exact rules (but they definitely were
documented).
Linus
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