o This patch moves the code to verify long mode and SSE to a common file.
This code is now shared by trampoline.S, wakeup.S, boot/setup.S and
boot/compressed/head.S
o So far we used to do very limited check in trampoline.S, wakeup.S and
in 32bit entry point. Now all the entry paths are forced to do the
exhaustive check, including SSE because verify_cpu is shared.
o I am keeping this patch as last in the x86 relocatable series because
previous patches have got quite some amount of testing done and don't want
to distrub that. So that if there is problem introduced by this patch, at
least it can be easily isolated.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This modifies the SMP trampoline and all of the associated code so
it can jump to a 64bit kernel loaded at an arbitrary address.
The dependencies on having an idenetity mapped page in the kernel
page tables for SMP bootup have all been removed.
In addition the trampoline has been modified to verify
that long mode is supported. Asking if long mode is implemented is
down right silly but we have traditionally had some of these checks,
and they can't hurt anything. So when the totally ludicrous happens
we just might handle it correctly.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Allows easier extension of the GDT by using the proper C symbol
for the size in the descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
o This fix was posted for i386 long back. Posting it for x86_64.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110380103229830&w=2
o This patch fixes the problem of secondary cpus boot up. This situation
is faced when kernel is built for default locations like 16MB and
onwards. In this configuration, only primary cpu (BP) comes and
secondary cpus don't boot.
o Problem occurs because in trampoline code, lgdt is not able to load the
GDT as it happens to be situated beyond 16MB. This is due to the fact
that cpu is still in real mode and default operand size is 16bit.
o This patch uses lgdtl instead of lgdt to force operand size to 32
instead of 16.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Vivek Goyal