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Subject[PATCH] [25/139] x86, xsave: Use alloc_bootmem_align() instead of alloc_bootmem()
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2.6.35-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>

commit 10340ae130fb70352eae1ae8a00b7906d91bf166 upstream.

Alignment of alloc_bootmem() depends on the value of
L1_CACHE_SHIFT. What we need here, however, is 64 byte alignment. Use
alloc_bootmem_align() and explicitly specify the alignment instead.

This fixes a kernel boot crash reported by Jody when the cpu in .config
is set to MPENTIUMII but the kernel is booted on a xsave-capable CPU.

Reported-by: Jody Bruchon <jody@nctritech.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101116212442.059967454@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.35.y/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.35.y.orig/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
+++ linux-2.6.35.y/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
@@ -305,7 +305,8 @@ void __cpuinit xsave_init(void)
*/
static void __init setup_xstate_init(void)
{
- init_xstate_buf = alloc_bootmem(xstate_size);
+ init_xstate_buf = alloc_bootmem_align(xstate_size,
+ __alignof__(struct xsave_struct));
init_xstate_buf->i387.mxcsr = MXCSR_DEFAULT;
}


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