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From: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] EFI: Fix gdt load
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:18:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4406F0C2.7090002@ed-soft.at> (raw)

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This patch makes the kernel bootable again on ia32 EFI systems.

Signed-off-by: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>

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diff -uNr linux-2.6.16-rc5/arch/i386/kernel/efi.c linux-2.6.16-rc5.efi/arch/i386/kernel/efi.c
--- linux-2.6.16-rc5/arch/i386/kernel/efi.c	2006-03-02 14:08:06.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc5.efi/arch/i386/kernel/efi.c	2006-03-02 14:04:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@
 {
 	unsigned long cr4;
 	unsigned long temp;
-
+	struct Xgt_desc_struct *cpu_gdt_descr = &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_descr, 0);
+	
 	spin_lock(&efi_rt_lock);
 	local_irq_save(efi_rt_eflags);
 
@@ -103,18 +104,17 @@
 	 */
 	local_flush_tlb();
 
-	per_cpu(cpu_gdt_descr, 0).address =
-				 __pa(per_cpu(cpu_gdt_descr, 0).address);
-	load_gdt((struct Xgt_desc_struct *)__pa(&per_cpu(cpu_gdt_descr, 0)));
+	cpu_gdt_descr->address = __pa(cpu_gdt_descr->address);
+	load_gdt(cpu_gdt_descr);
 }
 
 static void efi_call_phys_epilog(void)
 {
 	unsigned long cr4;
+	struct Xgt_desc_struct *cpu_gdt_descr = &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_descr, 0);
 
-	per_cpu(cpu_gdt_descr, 0).address =
-			(unsigned long)__va(per_cpu(cpu_gdt_descr, 0).address);
-	load_gdt((struct Xgt_desc_struct *)__va(&per_cpu(cpu_gdt_descr, 0)));
+	cpu_gdt_descr->address = __va(cpu_gdt_descr->address);
+	load_gdt(cpu_gdt_descr);
 
 	cr4 = read_cr4();
 

             reply	other threads:[~2006-03-02 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-02 13:18 Edgar Hucek [this message]
2006-03-02 16:12 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2006-03-05  2:45   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 10:32 ` Edgar Hucek
2006-03-05  2:43 ` Andrew Morton

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