On 08/03/2009 08:11 AM, Akinobu Mita wrote: >>>> >> OK, I spotted the following error, which certainly would explain a crash on >> an APM machine: >> >> /* data */ >> - [GDT_ENTRY_APMBIOS_BASE+2] = { { { 0x0000ffff, 0x00409200 } } >> }, >> + [GDT_ENTRY_APMBIOS_BASE+2] = GDT_ENTRY_INIT(0x409a, 0, 0xffff), > > Oops, I really should have checked the binary because the compiler should > generate same code with this patch. > Well, it doesn't even on the best of days, because the last hunk changes a dynamic initializer to a strange mix between static and dynamic: -static struct desc_struct bad_bios_desc; +static struct desc_struct bad_bios_desc = GDT_ENTRY_INIT(0x4092, 0, 0); /* * At some point we want to use this stack frame pointer to unwind @@ -476,9 +476,6 @@ void pnpbios_calls_init(union pnp_bios_install_struct *header) pnp_bios_callpoint.offset = header->fields.pm16offset; pnp_bios_callpoint.segment = PNP_CS16; - bad_bios_desc.a = 0; - bad_bios_desc.b = 0x00409200; - set_desc_base(&bad_bios_desc, (unsigned long)__va(0x40UL << 4)); set_desc_limit(&bad_bios_desc, 4095 - (0x40 << 4)); This is about at strange as it comes; I think we could simply do: GDT_ENTRY_INIT(0x4092, (unsigned long)__va(0x400UL), 4095-0x400); Although perhaps the 4095 should really be PAGE_SIZE-1... -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html