* [PATCH 9/10] Apm is on cpu zero only
@ 2005-11-10 0:45 Zachary Amsden
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From: Zachary Amsden @ 2005-11-10 0:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds, Linux Kernel Mailing List,
H. Peter Anvin, Zwane Mwaikambo, Pratap Subrahmanyam,
Christopher Li, Eric W. Biederman, Ingo Molnar, Zachary Amsden
APM BIOS code has a protective wrapper that runs it only on CPU zero. Thus,
no need to set APM BIOS segments in the GDT for other CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Index: linux-2.6.14/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14.orig/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c 2005-11-09 06:37:47.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.14/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c 2005-11-09 06:38:29.000000000 -0800
@@ -2203,8 +2203,8 @@
static int __init apm_init(void)
{
struct proc_dir_entry *apm_proc;
+ struct desc_struct *gdt;
int ret;
- int i;
dmi_check_system(apm_dmi_table);
@@ -2295,18 +2295,17 @@
* not restrict themselves to their claimed limit. When this happens,
* they will cause a segmentation violation in the kernel at boot time.
* Most BIOS's, however, will respect a 64k limit, so we use that.
- */
- for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++) {
- struct desc_struct *gdt = get_cpu_gdt_table(i);
- if (!gdt)
- continue;
- set_base(&gdt[APM_CS >> 3],
- __va((unsigned long)apm_info.bios.cseg << 4));
- set_base(&gdt[APM_CS_16 >> 3],
- __va((unsigned long)apm_info.bios.cseg_16 << 4));
- set_base(&gdt[APM_DS >> 3],
- __va((unsigned long)apm_info.bios.dseg << 4));
- }
+ *
+ * Note we only set APM segments on CPU zero, since we pin the APM
+ * code to that CPU.
+ */
+ gdt = get_cpu_gdt_table(0);
+ set_base(&gdt[APM_CS >> 3],
+ __va((unsigned long)apm_info.bios.cseg << 4));
+ set_base(&gdt[APM_CS_16 >> 3],
+ __va((unsigned long)apm_info.bios.cseg_16 << 4));
+ set_base(&gdt[APM_DS >> 3],
+ __va((unsigned long)apm_info.bios.dseg << 4));
apm_proc = create_proc_info_entry("apm", 0, NULL, apm_get_info);
if (apm_proc)
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