2.6.23-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.
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From: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
patch 7ed192906a2144ebc8ca2925a85d27b9c5355668 in mainline.
The 386 and 486 needs a jump immediately after setting %cr0 in order
to serialize the pipeline.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/i386/boot/pmjump.S | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/i386/boot/pmjump.S
+++ b/arch/i386/boot/pmjump.S
@@ -31,14 +31,14 @@ protected_mode_jump:
xorl %ebx, %ebx # Flag to indicate this is a boot
movl %edx, %esi # Pointer to boot_params table
movl %eax, 2f # Patch ljmpl instruction
- jmp 1f # Short jump to flush instruction q.
-1:
movw $__BOOT_DS, %cx
movl %cr0, %edx
orb $1, %dl # Protected mode (PE) bit
movl %edx, %cr0
+ jmp 1f # Short jump to serialize on 386/486
+1:
movw %cx, %ds
movw %cx, %es
--
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