linux/arch
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 0ad5bce740 x86: fix possible x86_64 and EFI regression
Russ Anderson reported a boot crash with EFI and latest mainline:

 BIOS-e820: 00000000fffa0000 - 00000000fffac000 (reserved)
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc5-00100-gec0c15a-dirty #5

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff80849195>] early_idt_handler+0x55/0x69
 [<ffffffff80313e52>] __memcpy+0x12/0xa4
 [<ffffffff80859015>] efi_init+0xce/0x932
 [<ffffffff80869c83>] setup_early_serial8250_console+0x2d/0x36a
 [<ffffffff80238688>] __insert_resource+0x18/0xc8
 [<ffffffff8084f6de>] setup_arch+0x3a7/0x632
 [<ffffffff808499ed>] start_kernel+0x91/0x367
 [<ffffffff80849393>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe3/0xe7
 [<ffffffff808492b0>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x0/0xe7

 RIP 0x10

Such a crash is possible if the CPU in this system is a 64-bit
processor which doesn't support NX (ie, old Intel P4 -based64-bit
processors).

Certainly, if we support such processors, then we should start with
_PAGE_NX initially clear in __supported_pte_flags, and then set it once
we've established that the processor does indeed support NX.  That will
prevent early_ioremap - or anything else - from trying to set it.

The simple fix is to simply call check_efer() earlier.

Reported-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-12 11:40:57 +02:00
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alpha [PATCH] fix osf_getdirents() 2008-08-25 01:18:06 -04:00
arm Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2008-09-08 15:50:19 -07:00
avr32 avr32: pm_standby low-power ram bug fix 2008-09-01 13:04:09 +02:00
blackfin Blackfin arch: Fix PM building on BF52x: No ROTWE on BF52x, add USBWE 2008-08-28 17:32:01 +08:00
cris removed unused #include <linux/version.h>'s 2008-08-23 12:14:12 -07:00
frv FRV: Wire up new system calls 2008-08-01 13:03:49 -07:00
h8300 [h8300] move include/asm-h8300 to arch/h8300/include/asm 2008-08-13 14:26:32 -07:00
ia64 lib: Correct printk %pF to work on all architectures 2008-09-09 11:51:15 -07:00
m32r m32r: use generic show_mem() 2008-07-26 12:00:11 -07:00
m68k m68k: atari_keyb_init operator precedence fix 2008-09-02 10:57:52 -07:00
m68knommu m68k{,nommu}: Wire up new system calls 2008-08-11 10:37:34 -07:00
mips [MIPS] IP22: Fix detection of second HPC3 on Challenge S 2008-09-08 18:45:39 +02:00
mn10300 removed unused #include <linux/version.h>'s 2008-08-23 12:14:12 -07:00
parisc lib: Correct printk %pF to work on all architectures 2008-09-09 11:51:15 -07:00
powerpc lib: Correct printk %pF to work on all architectures 2008-09-09 11:51:15 -07:00
s390 [S390] CVE-2008-1514: prevent ptrace padding area read/write in 31-bit mode 2008-09-09 12:39:06 +02:00
sh sh64: resume_kernel fix for kernel oops built with CONFIG_BKL_PREEMPT=y. 2008-09-05 14:51:28 +09:00
sparc sparc: Fix resource flags for PCI children in OF device tree. 2008-08-28 22:59:10 -07:00
sparc64 sparc64: Disable timer interrupts in fixup_irqs(). 2008-09-08 17:21:07 -07:00
um uml: fix tty-related build error 2008-07-30 09:41:45 -07:00
x86 x86: fix possible x86_64 and EFI regression 2008-09-12 11:40:57 +02:00
xtensa remove unneeded #include <linux/ide.h>'s 2008-08-05 18:17:00 +02:00
.gitignore
Kconfig tracehook: CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK 2008-07-26 12:00:09 -07:00