Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc2-mm1] Fix fake return address

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On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:21:38PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> The fake return address was being set to __KERNEL_PDA, rather than 0.
> Push it earlier while %eax still equals 0.

Oops. That might explain some of the unwind problems. Thanks.

-Andi

> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> 
> diff -r b8e58159855c arch/i386/kernel/head.S
> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/head.S	Tue Oct 17 19:04:59 2006 -0700
> +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/head.S	Tue Oct 17 19:05:46 2006 -0700
> @@ -316,12 +316,12 @@ 1:	movl $(__KERNEL_DS),%eax	# reload all
> 	xorl %eax,%eax			# Clear FS and LDT
> 	movl %eax,%fs
> 	lldt %ax
> +	pushl %eax		# fake return address
> 
> 	movl $(__KERNEL_PDA),%eax
> 	mov  %eax,%gs
> 
> 	cld			# gcc2 wants the direction flag cleared at 
> 	all times
> -	pushl %eax		# fake return address
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> 	movb ready, %cl
> 	movb $1, ready
> 
> 
> 
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