linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH FIXED] x86: only enable interrupts when kernel state has been set up

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Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:56:00 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH FIXED] x86: only enable interrupts when kernel state
	has been set up


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:

> The sysenter path tries to enable interrupts immediately.  
> Unfortunately this doesn't work in a paravirt environment, because not 
> enough kernel state has been set up at that point (namely, pointing 
> %fs to the kernel percpu data segment).  To fix this, defer 
> ENABLE_INTERRUPTS until after the kernel state has been set up.
>
> Unfortunately this means that we're running with interrupts disabled 
> for a while without calling the IRQ tracing code, but that can't be 
> called without setting up %fs either.
>
> [ Fix since last posting: make sure saved eflags has interrupts 
> enabled. ]

thanks Jeremy - will give it a shot.

	Ingo
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