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Date:	Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:03:53 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Clear irqstack thread_info

Commit-ID:  7b698ea377e10b074ceef0d79218e6622d618421
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/7b698ea377e10b074ceef0d79218e6622d618421
Author:     Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:32:10 -0500
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:58:37 +0100

x86: Clear irqstack thread_info

Mathias Merz reported that v2.6.37 failed to boot on his
system.

Make sure that the thread_info part of the irqstack is
initialized to zeroes.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Matthias Merz <linux@...z-ka.de>
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTimyKXfJ1x8tgwrr1hYnNLrPfgE1NTe4z7L6tUDm@...l.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c |    7 ++-----
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c
index 96656f2..5206bb9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c
@@ -129,8 +129,7 @@ void __cpuinit irq_ctx_init(int cpu)
 	irqctx = page_address(alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu),
 					       THREAD_FLAGS,
 					       THREAD_ORDER));
-	irqctx->tinfo.task		= NULL;
-	irqctx->tinfo.exec_domain	= NULL;
+	memset(&irqctx->tinfo, 0, sizeof(struct thread_info));
 	irqctx->tinfo.cpu		= cpu;
 	irqctx->tinfo.preempt_count	= HARDIRQ_OFFSET;
 	irqctx->tinfo.addr_limit	= MAKE_MM_SEG(0);
@@ -140,10 +139,8 @@ void __cpuinit irq_ctx_init(int cpu)
 	irqctx = page_address(alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu),
 					       THREAD_FLAGS,
 					       THREAD_ORDER));
-	irqctx->tinfo.task		= NULL;
-	irqctx->tinfo.exec_domain	= NULL;
+	memset(&irqctx->tinfo, 0, sizeof(struct thread_info));
 	irqctx->tinfo.cpu		= cpu;
-	irqctx->tinfo.preempt_count	= 0;
 	irqctx->tinfo.addr_limit	= MAKE_MM_SEG(0);
 
 	per_cpu(softirq_ctx, cpu) = irqctx;
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