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    SubjectRe: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1
    On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 12:57:35PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    >
    > * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
    >
    > > Still. The crash is 100% repeatable and is the same every time.
    > > Happens on both my i386 test boxes.
    > >
    > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt
    > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-vmm.txt
    > >
    > > and I bisected it down to e3c1b141.
    >
    > ok, can reproduce it - the patch below fixes it for me.
    >
    > Ingo
    >
    > ------------------------->
    > Subject: x86: fix system gate related crash
    > From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    >
    > on 32-bit, system gates are traps.
    >
    > on 64-bit, they are interrupts (which disable hardirqs).
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    > ---
    > include/asm-x86/desc.h | 4 ++++
    > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
    >
    > Index: linux-x86.q/include/asm-x86/desc.h
    > ===================================================================
    > --- linux-x86.q.orig/include/asm-x86/desc.h
    > +++ linux-x86.q/include/asm-x86/desc.h
    > @@ -310,7 +310,11 @@ static inline void set_trap_gate(unsigne
    > static inline void set_system_gate(unsigned int n, void *addr)
    > {
    > BUG_ON((unsigned)n > 0xFF);
    > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
    > + _set_gate(n, GATE_TRAP, addr, 0x3, 0, __KERNEL_CS);
    > +#else
    > _set_gate(n, GATE_INTERRUPT, addr, 0x3, 0, __KERNEL_CS);
    > +#endif
    > }
    >
    This would be a lot cleaner with entirely separate implementations
    of set_system_gate for 32 vs 64 bit. Especially if the file already
    has a large ifdef block for 32 vs 64 already.


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