2.6.36-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Suresh Siddha <[email protected]> commit 10340ae130fb70352eae1ae8a00b7906d91bf166 upstream. Alignment of alloc_bootmem() depends on the value of L1_CACHE_SHIFT. What we need here, however, is 64 byte alignment. Use alloc_bootmem_align() and explicitly specify the alignment instead. This fixes a kernel boot crash reported by Jody when the cpu in .config is set to MPENTIUMII but the kernel is booted on a xsave-capable CPU. Reported-by: Jody Bruchon <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c @@ -394,7 +394,8 @@ static void __init setup_xstate_init(voi * Setup init_xstate_buf to represent the init state of * all the features managed by the xsave */ - init_xstate_buf = alloc_bootmem(xstate_size); + init_xstate_buf = alloc_bootmem_align(xstate_size, + __alignof__(struct xsave_struct)); init_xstate_buf->i387.mxcsr = MXCSR_DEFAULT; clts(); _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
