From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change init_gdt to update the gdt via write_gdt, rather than a direct write.
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:58:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080815165821.GA18777@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48A5ACFA.7040906@citrix.com>
* Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com> wrote:
> From: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:21:56 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] change init_gdt to update the gdt via write_gdt, rather than a direct write.
>
> By writing directly, a memory access violation can occur whilst
> hotplugging a CPU if the entry was previously marked read-only.
applied to tip/x86/urgent - thanks Alex.
Ingo
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