Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86-64: Handle exception table entries during early boot

Borislav Petkov
2012-04-19T17:16:14Z

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 09:59:07AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The offsets in my code refer to offsets after we push the vector number,
> %rax, %rcx and %rdx onto the stack manually; that is 4*8 = 32 bytes,
> hence the offset.

Ah, sure, you push those upon entry into early_idt_handler, ok.

Btw, just tested the patchset here with the following hunk below and it
looks good.

Also, you can add a revert of ce37defc0f667 as the last one in your
patchset since the comment becomes invalid after it goes in.

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
index 0a44b90..a3a6299 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -448,6 +448,8 @@ static void __cpuinit bsp_init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)

static void __cpuinit early_init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
+ u32 dummy1, dummy2;
+
early_init_amd_mc(c);

/*
@@ -479,6 +481,7 @@ static void __cpuinit early_init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_EXTD_APICID);
}
#endif
+ rdmsr_safe(0xdeadbeef, &dummy1, &dummy2);
}

static void __cpuinit init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)

Thanks.

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