Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)

[Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>]

Hello.

Jan Beulich wrote:
> mainline, but I just now came across this, and following all of the
> original discussion that I was able to locate I didn't see any mention
> of a potential different approach to solving the problem which, as it
There were at least 3 fundamentally different
approaches proposed by different people, I implemented
and posted all of them. At least 2 approaches were
publically discussed. Both did what you say. The
one that didn't, wasn't publically discussed either
(the one that ended up in 2.6.12, in fact).
So it is a bit odd that you weren't able to find
the code that does what you say. :)

> would appear to me, requires much less code changes: Instead of
> allocating a separate stack to set intermediately, the 16-bit stack
> segment could be mapped directly onto the normal, flat kernel stack,
Do you mean, eg, this?
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.2/1533.html

Relevant quote:
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> ring1 stacks must be per-CPU.
I allocate it on a ring0 stack. Noone seem to
suggest that. Is this flawed for some reasons?
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