linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION]: x86/idt: Move early IDT setup out of 32-bit asm

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Message-ID: <CAP8WD_Zej67vV1dOaSwvpmkKi-VQWeAWx6azF69=1MJ7e3-J_A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:10:20 -0400
From:   tedheadster <tedheadster@...il.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION]: x86/idt: Move early IDT setup out of 32-bit asm

Thomas

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> Matthew,
>
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2017, tedheadster wrote:
>
>>   I bisected a bug to commit 87e81786b13b267c4355e0d23e33c7e4c08fa63f.
>> On first generation i486 processors it immediately resets the system
>> after the "Booting the kernel" message.
>
> Duh. Took me a while to understand whats going on. The patch below should
> fix that issue.
>
> Thanks,
>
>         tglx
>

I just tested the patch and it worked nicely.

- Matthew Whitehead