Re: -git: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at c0100248[CPU hotplug]

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sun Jul 27 2008 - 15:29:34 EST


On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> Booting processor 1/1 ip 6000
> Initializing CPU#1
> [...]
> Write protecting the kernel text: 5648k
>
> So it succeeds because the protection happens much later :-)

Patch below fixes the issue. I get it to Linus ASAP.

Thanks,

tglx
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
index f67e934..a7010c3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
@@ -456,9 +456,6 @@ is386: movl $2,%ecx # set MP
1:
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
jmp *(initial_code)
-.align 4
-ENTRY(initial_code)
- .long i386_start_kernel

/*
* We depend on ET to be correct. This checks for 287/387.
@@ -601,6 +598,11 @@ ignore_int:
#endif
iret

+.section .cpuinit.data,"wa"
+.align 4
+ENTRY(initial_code)
+ .long i386_start_kernel
+
.section .text
/*
* Real beginning of normal "text" segment
--
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