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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	stsp@aknet.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz
Subject: Re: crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 12:47:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050407164734.GB19016@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504070737190.28951@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:47:41AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 > So the sysenter sequence might as well look like
 > 
 > 	pushl $(__USER_DS)	
 > 	pushl %ebp
 > 	sti
 > 	pushfl
 > 	..
 > 
 > which actually does three protected pushes thanks to the one-instruction 
 > "interrupt shadow" after an sti.

Is this guaranteed on every x86 variant (or rather, every one
that has SEP). ?

		Dave


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-07 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-05  6:55 crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05  7:03 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-05  7:07   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05  7:16   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05  7:29     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05  7:40       ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05  9:51         ` Mikael Pettersson
2005-04-05 18:09           ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05  7:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05 19:11 ` Stas Sergeev
2005-04-05 19:19   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-05 19:41     ` Stas Sergeev
2005-04-05 19:53       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-05 20:44         ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05 21:04           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-06 15:44         ` Stas Sergeev
2005-04-07  8:00           ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-07 11:10             ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-07 14:47               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-07 14:51                 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-07 16:47                 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2005-04-07 17:17                   ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-04-07 17:23                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-07 16:11             ` Stas Sergeev
2005-04-07 16:35               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-07 16:46                 ` Stas Sergeev
2005-04-07 16:55                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-07 18:10                     ` Stas Sergeev
2005-04-10 13:20                     ` Stas Sergeev
2005-04-10 22:32                       ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-11 17:15                         ` Stas Sergeev

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