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Message-ID: <20090804121838.GA4367@elte.hu>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:18:38 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>, mingo@...hat.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86: Introduce GDT_ENTRY_INIT()
* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> On 08/03/2009 08:11 AM, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> >>>>
> >> OK, I spotted the following error, which certainly would explain a crash on
> >> an APM machine:
> >>
> >> /* data */
> >> - [GDT_ENTRY_APMBIOS_BASE+2] = { { { 0x0000ffff, 0x00409200 } }
> >> },
> >> + [GDT_ENTRY_APMBIOS_BASE+2] = GDT_ENTRY_INIT(0x409a, 0, 0xffff),
> >
> > Oops, I really should have checked the binary because the compiler should
> > generate same code with this patch.
> >
>
> Well, it doesn't even on the best of days, because the last hunk changes
> a dynamic initializer to a strange mix between static and dynamic:
>
> -static struct desc_struct bad_bios_desc;
> +static struct desc_struct bad_bios_desc = GDT_ENTRY_INIT(0x4092, 0, 0);
>
> /*
> * At some point we want to use this stack frame pointer to unwind
> @@ -476,9 +476,6 @@ void pnpbios_calls_init(union
> pnp_bios_install_struct *header)
> pnp_bios_callpoint.offset = header->fields.pm16offset;
> pnp_bios_callpoint.segment = PNP_CS16;
>
> - bad_bios_desc.a = 0;
> - bad_bios_desc.b = 0x00409200;
> -
> set_desc_base(&bad_bios_desc, (unsigned long)__va(0x40UL << 4));
> set_desc_limit(&bad_bios_desc, 4095 - (0x40 << 4));
>
> This is about at strange as it comes; I think we could simply do:
>
> GDT_ENTRY_INIT(0x4092, (unsigned long)__va(0x400UL), 4095-0x400);
>
> Although perhaps the 4095 should really be PAGE_SIZE-1...
I've removed the patch for now - please resubmit when fixed.
Ingo
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