Re: [PATCH 02/03] kexec: Avoid overwriting the current pgd (V2, i386)

[Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 18:58 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 01:40:41PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> >  
> > @@ -170,45 +151,16 @@ void machine_kexec_cleanup(struct kimage
> >  NORET_TYPE void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
> >  {
> >  	unsigned long page_list;
> > -	unsigned long reboot_code_buffer;
> > -
> > +	unsigned long control_code;
> > +	unsigned long page_table_a;
> >  	relocate_new_kernel_t rnk;
> >  
> > -	/* Interrupts aren't acceptable while we reboot */
> > -	local_irq_disable();
> 
> Why are you getting rid of this call? Looks sane to disable interrupts
> early.

It made sense to disable interrupts early because we used to setup the
segments and overwrite the page tables from the c code. My patch moves
the segment handling and page table switching code into the assembly
routine, and one of the first things the assembly code does is:

	/* zero out flags, and disable interrupts */
	pushl $0
	popfl

So I think we should be safe. Thanks for checking!

/ magnus