The patch titled
F00F bug fixup for i386: use immediate values
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
f00f-bug-fixup-for-i386-use-immediate-values.patch
This patch was dropped because it had testing failures
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Subject: F00F bug fixup for i386: use immediate values
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Use the faster immediate values for F00F bug handling in do_page_fault.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/i386/kernel/traps.c | 4 ++++
arch/i386/mm/fault.c | 3 ++-
include/asm-i386/processor.h | 3 +++
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~f00f-bug-fixup-for-i386-use-immediate-values
arch/i386/kernel/traps.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~f00f-bug-fixup-for-i386-use-immediate-values
+++ a/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/nmi.h>
#include <linux/bug.h>
+#include <linux/immediate.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_EISA
#include <linux/ioport.h>
@@ -1145,6 +1146,8 @@ asmlinkage void math_emulate(long arg)
#endif /* CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_F00F_BUG
+immediate_t __read_mostly f00f_bug_fix;
+
void __init trap_init_f00f_bug(void)
{
__set_fixmap(FIX_F00F_IDT, __pa(&idt_table), PAGE_KERNEL_RO);
@@ -1155,6 +1158,7 @@ void __init trap_init_f00f_bug(void)
*/
idt_descr.address = fix_to_virt(FIX_F00F_IDT);
load_idt(&idt_descr);
+ immediate_arm(&f00f_bug_fix);
}
#endif
diff -puN arch/i386/mm/fault.c~f00f-bug-fixup-for-i386-use-immediate-values
arch/i386/mm/fault.c
--- a/arch/i386/mm/fault.c~f00f-bug-fixup-for-i386-use-immediate-values
+++ a/arch/i386/mm/fault.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
#include <linux/kprobes.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/kdebug.h>
+#include <linux/immediate.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
#include <asm/desc.h>
@@ -492,7 +493,7 @@ bad_area_nosemaphore:
/*
* Pentium F0 0F C7 C8 bug workaround.
*/
- if (boot_cpu_data.f00f_bug) {
+ if (unlikely(immediate(f00f_bug_fix))) {
unsigned long nr;
nr = (address - idt_descr.address) >> 3;
diff -puN
include/asm-i386/processor.h~f00f-bug-fixup-for-i386-use-immediate-values
include/asm-i386/processor.h
--- a/include/asm-i386/processor.h~f00f-bug-fixup-for-i386-use-immediate-values
+++ a/include/asm-i386/processor.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <asm/percpu.h>
#include <linux/cpumask.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/immediate.h>
#include <asm/processor-flags.h>
/* flag for disabling the tsc */
@@ -102,6 +103,8 @@ extern struct cpuinfo_x86 new_cpu_data;
extern struct tss_struct doublefault_tss;
DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct tss_struct, init_tss);
+extern immediate_t __read_mostly f00f_bug_fix;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
extern struct cpuinfo_x86 cpu_data[];
#define current_cpu_data cpu_data[smp_processor_id()]
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are
powerpc-promc-remove-undef-printk.patch
f00f-bug-fixup-for-i386-use-immediate-values.patch
scheduler-profiling-use-immediate-values.patch
scheduler-profiling-use-immediate-values-fix.patch
cxgb3-vs-immediate-stuff.patch
use-data_data-in-cris.patch
add-missing-data_data-in-powerpc.patch
use-data_data-in-xtensa.patch
linux-kernel-markers-architecture-independent-code.patch
linux-kernel-markers-add-kconfig-menus-for-the-marker-code.patch
linux-kernel-markers-documentation.patch
port-of-blktrace-to-the-linux-kernel-markers.patch
port-of-blktrace-to-the-linux-kernel-markers-fix.patch
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