* Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Still. The crash is 100% repeatable and is the same every time.
> Happens on both my i386 test boxes.
>
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-vmm.txt
>
> and I bisected it down to e3c1b141.
ok, can reproduce it - the patch below fixes it for me.
Ingo
------------------------->
Subject: x86: fix system gate related crash
From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
on 32-bit, system gates are traps.
on 64-bit, they are interrupts (which disable hardirqs).
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
include/asm-x86/desc.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
Index: linux-x86.q/include/asm-x86/desc.h
===================================================================
--- linux-x86.q.orig/include/asm-x86/desc.h
+++ linux-x86.q/include/asm-x86/desc.h
@@ -310,7 +310,11 @@ static inline void set_trap_gate(unsigne
static inline void set_system_gate(unsigned int n, void *addr)
{
BUG_ON((unsigned)n > 0xFF);
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
+ _set_gate(n, GATE_TRAP, addr, 0x3, 0, __KERNEL_CS);
+#else
_set_gate(n, GATE_INTERRUPT, addr, 0x3, 0, __KERNEL_CS);
+#endif
}
static inline void set_task_gate(unsigned int n, unsigned int gdt_entry)
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