On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, Dave Hansen wrote:
> __set_fixmap(get_cpu_gdt_ro_index(cpu), get_cpu_gdt_paddr(cpu), prot);
> +
> + /* CPU 0's mapping is done in kaiser_init() */
> + if (cpu) {
> + int ret;
> +
> + ret = kaiser_add_mapping((unsigned long) get_cpu_gdt_ro(cpu),
> + PAGE_SIZE, __PAGE_KERNEL_RO);
> + /*
> + * We do not have a good way to fail CPU bringup.
> + * Just WARN about it and hope we boot far enough
> + * to get a good log out.
> + */
The GDT fixmap can be set up before the CPU is started. There is no reason
to do that in cpu_init().
> +
> + /*
> + * We could theoretically do this in setup_fixmap_gdt().
> + * But, we would need to rewrite the above page table
> + * allocation code to use the bootmem allocator. The
> + * buddy allocator is not available at the time that we
> + * call setup_fixmap_gdt() for CPU 0.
> + */
> + kaiser_add_user_map_early(get_cpu_gdt_ro(0), PAGE_SIZE,
> + __PAGE_KERNEL_RO | _PAGE_GLOBAL);
This one is needs to stay.
Thanks,
tglx
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