On 02/02/2011 12:40 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 05:10:03PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 01/31/2011 03:52 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>
>>> This worked, thanks! If this tests cleanly for you in qemu, we should get
>>> this committed.
>>>
>>
>> This is wrong for at least one reason; possibly two:
>>
>> a) it ignores the control to not reload the segment registers (not
>> sure if anything still uses them, but...)
>>
>> b) I'm not sure that init_thread_union is safe for the non-BSP CPU here.
> 
> What's the best way to move forward? Or, how can we find answers to these
> questions?
> 
> -Kees
> 


Can someone test out the attached patch and verify that it works?

	-hpa

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