Re: X86_64: 2.6.12-rc3 spontaneous reboot

[Patrick McHardy]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Ok thanks for the information. I will stare a bit at the patch.
>
> It is very mysterious though. Even if the patch was somehow wrong
> the worst thing that could happen is that you end up with interrupts
> off when you shouldnt, and the NMI watchdog is very good 
> at catching that.

I found that bringing back the cli in retint_swapgs fixed the problem,
so I traced back paths that could get there with interrupts enabled
and found int_restore_rest -> int_with_check -> retint_swapgs.
Adding a cli to int_restore_rest fixes the problem for me. I hope this
helps.

Regards
Patrick
Index: arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S
===================================================================
--- 585883113da6fe9142de95138c8ed8ca898a4ccc/arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S  (mode:100644 sha1:3233a15cc4e074c00b75569f21c2844ee280b214)
+++ uncommitted/arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S  (mode:100644)
@@ -307,6 +307,7 @@
 1:	movl $_TIF_NEED_RESCHED,%edi	
 int_restore_rest:
 	RESTORE_REST
+	cli
 	jmp int_with_check
 	CFI_ENDPROC