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SubjectRe: [patch] x86: fix savesegment() bug causing crashes on 64-bit
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> i spent a fair amount of time chasing a 64-bit bootup crash in
> tip/master that manifested itself as bootup segfaults:
>

Crap, I'm sorry. I fixed this locally a couple of days ago, but I
hadn't actually observed it causing any problems, so I didn't rush to
push it out.

> The solution is to only allow segment operands to go to registers. This
> fix allows my test-system to boot up without crashing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

J


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