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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-09 11:39:02 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-09 11:39:02 +0200
commitd028203c0446c7f65ed2b22342a56f03c6c4a6c1 (patch)
tree6bd73a5c70b407491dc9d40ecb9e95b48233d004 /arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
parentMerge branch 'hotfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6 (diff)
parentx86: build fix for "x86: fix C1E && nx6325 stability problem" (diff)
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Merge branch 'x86/core' into x86/unify-pci
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
index 61efa2f7d564..c87cbd84c3e5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static ctl_table kernel_root_table2[] = {
doesn't violate that. We'll find out if it does. */
static void __cpuinit vsyscall_set_cpu(int cpu)
{
- unsigned long *d;
+ unsigned long d;
unsigned long node = 0;
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
node = cpu_to_node(cpu);
@@ -260,11 +260,11 @@ static void __cpuinit vsyscall_set_cpu(int cpu)
/* Store cpu number in limit so that it can be loaded quickly
in user space in vgetcpu.
12 bits for the CPU and 8 bits for the node. */
- d = (unsigned long *)(get_cpu_gdt_table(cpu) + GDT_ENTRY_PER_CPU);
- *d = 0x0f40000000000ULL;
- *d |= cpu;
- *d |= (node & 0xf) << 12;
- *d |= (node >> 4) << 48;
+ d = 0x0f40000000000ULL;
+ d |= cpu;
+ d |= (node & 0xf) << 12;
+ d |= (node >> 4) << 48;
+ write_gdt_entry(get_cpu_gdt_table(cpu), GDT_ENTRY_PER_CPU, &d, DESCTYPE_S);
}
static void __cpuinit cpu_vsyscall_init(void *arg)