32-bit secondary cpus had uninitialized cr4 shadows, causing random failures.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> --- This is embarrassing. I must have gotten lucky testing it. arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index b5c8ff5e9dfc..2346c95c6ab1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -1396,6 +1396,12 @@ void cpu_init(void) wait_for_master_cpu(cpu); + /* + * Initialize the CR4 shadow before doing anything that could + * try to read it. + */ + cr4_init_shadow(); + show_ucode_info_early(); printk(KERN_INFO "Initializing CPU#%d\n", cpu); -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

