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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-06 20:21:25 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-06 20:21:28 +0200
commit75b5032212641f6d38ac041416945e70da833b68 (patch)
treebb827401e00c1681a29e75ade3b4ecc903df1a54 /arch/x86
parentperf_counter tools: Add 'perf annotate' feature (diff)
parentMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anh... (diff)
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Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes before the -v8 perfcounters release. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c4
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/lguest/Makefile1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/lguest/boot.c17
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
index 208ecf6643df..54b6de2cd947 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
@@ -693,8 +693,8 @@ static int acpi_cpufreq_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
if (perf->control_register.space_id == ACPI_ADR_SPACE_FIXED_HARDWARE &&
policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency > 20 * 1000) {
policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = 20 * 1000;
- printk_once(KERN_INFO "Capping off P-state tranision"
- " latency at 20 uS\n");
+ printk_once(KERN_INFO
+ "P-state transition latency capped at 20 uS\n");
}
/* table init */
diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/Makefile b/arch/x86/lguest/Makefile
index 27f0c9ed7f60..94e0e54056a9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lguest/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/lguest/Makefile
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
obj-y := i386_head.o boot.o
+CFLAGS_boot.o := $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector)
diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
index ca7ec44bafc3..33a93b417396 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
#include <asm/mce.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/i387.h>
+#include <asm/stackprotector.h>
#include <asm/reboot.h> /* for struct machine_ops */
/*G:010 Welcome to the Guest!
@@ -1088,13 +1089,21 @@ __init void lguest_init(void)
* lguest_init() where the rest of the fairly chaotic boot setup
* occurs. */
+ /* The stack protector is a weird thing where gcc places a canary
+ * value on the stack and then checks it on return. This file is
+ * compiled with -fno-stack-protector it, so we got this far without
+ * problems. The value of the canary is kept at offset 20 from the
+ * %gs register, so we need to set that up before calling C functions
+ * in other files. */
+ setup_stack_canary_segment(0);
+ /* We could just call load_stack_canary_segment(), but we might as
+ * call switch_to_new_gdt() which loads the whole table and sets up
+ * the per-cpu segment descriptor register %fs as well. */
+ switch_to_new_gdt(0);
+
/* As described in head_32.S, we map the first 128M of memory. */
max_pfn_mapped = (128*1024*1024) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- /* Load the %fs segment register (the per-cpu segment register) with
- * the normal data segment to get through booting. */
- asm volatile ("mov %0, %%fs" : : "r" (__KERNEL_DS) : "memory");
-
/* The Host<->Guest Switcher lives at the top of our address space, and
* the Host told us how big it is when we made LGUEST_INIT hypercall:
* it put the answer in lguest_data.reserve_mem */