linux/arch
Markus Metzger de90add30e x86, bts: fix wrmsr and spinlock over kmalloc
Impact: fix sleeping-with-spinlock-held bugs/crashes

- Turn a wrmsr to write the DS_AREA MSR into a wrmsrl.
- Use irqsave variants of spinlocks.
- Do not allocate memory while holding spinlocks.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-25 17:29:02 +01:00
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alpha Merge branch 'v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-10-23 10:53:02 -07:00
arm Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2008-11-13 11:30:25 -08:00
avr32 Merge branches 'boards' and 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6 2008-10-23 15:24:10 +02:00
blackfin Blackfin arch: fix a broken define in dma-mapping 2008-11-18 17:48:22 +08:00
cris [CRIS] Remove links from CRIS build 2008-10-31 23:37:57 +01:00
frv container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem 2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dvrabel/uwb 2008-10-23 08:20:34 -07:00
ia64 [IA64] xen: fix xen_get_eflags. 2008-11-20 13:43:01 -08:00
m32r Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile 2008-10-23 10:05:40 -07:00
m68k m68k: Fix off-by-one in m68k_setup_user_interrupt() 2008-11-15 11:36:06 -08:00
m68knommu container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem 2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
mips MIPS: csrc-r4k: Fix declaration depending on the wrong CONFIG_ symbol. 2008-11-20 19:42:33 +00:00
mn10300 MN10300: Don't do misalignment handling for userspace 2008-11-12 10:41:18 -08:00
parisc parisc: fix bug in compat_arch_ptrace 2008-11-20 13:09:17 -08:00
powerpc powerpc: Update desktop/server defconfigs 2008-11-11 19:42:30 +11:00
s390 [S390] fix s390x_newuname 2008-11-14 18:18:55 +01:00
sh serial: sh-sci: Reorder the SCxTDR write after the TDxE clear. 2008-11-13 17:46:06 +09:00
sparc sparc64: wire up accept4() 2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
sparc64 sparc64: wire up accept4() 2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
um Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev 2008-10-23 10:23:07 -07:00
x86 x86, bts: fix wrmsr and spinlock over kmalloc 2008-11-25 17:29:02 +01:00
xtensa Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/czankel/xtensa-2.6 2008-10-23 09:16:56 -07:00
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