[patch] TLS boot-initialization bugfix on SMP, 2.5.32-BK

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:30:14 +0200 (CEST)


the attached (tested) patch fixes a bad TLS initialization bug found by
Andi Kleen. x86/SMP only worked due to luck.

Ingo

--- linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c.orig Fri Aug 30 10:26:55 2002
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c Fri Aug 30 10:27:08 2002
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@
/*
* Set up the per-thread TLS descriptor cache:
*/
- memcpy(thread->tls_array, cpu_gdt_table[cpu], GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MAX * 8);
+ memcpy(thread->tls_array, cpu_gdt_table[cpu], GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES * 8);

__asm__ __volatile__("lgdt %0": "=m" (cpu_gdt_descr[cpu]));
__asm__ __volatile__("lidt %0": "=m" (idt_descr));

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