The per-CPU initialization code is copying in bogus data into
thread->tls_array. Note that it copies &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu),
not &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu)[GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN). That is totally
broken and unnecessary. Make the initialization explicitly NULL.
Patch-base: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1
Patch-keys: i386 cleanup
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com
Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/processor.h
==================================================================---
linux-2.6.13.orig/include/asm-i386/processor.h 2005-08-09 18:37:48.000000000
-0700
+++ linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/processor.h 2005-08-10 20:42:20.000000000
-0700
@@ -366,6 +366,7 @@
};
#define INIT_THREAD { \
+ .tls_array = { [ 0 ... GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES-1 ] = { 0,0 } }, \
.vm86_info = NULL, \
.sysenter_cs = __KERNEL_CS, \
.io_bitmap_ptr = NULL, \
Index: linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
==================================================================---
linux-2.6.13.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c 2005-08-09 18:37:48.000000000
-0700
+++ linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c 2005-08-10 20:42:04.000000000
-0700
@@ -607,12 +607,6 @@
cpu_gdt_descr[cpu].address (unsigned long)&per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table,
cpu);
- /*
- * Set up the per-thread TLS descriptor cache:
- */
- memcpy(thread->tls_array, &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu),
- GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES * 8);
-
load_gdt(&cpu_gdt_descr[cpu]);
load_idt(&idt_descr);
