[030/152] x86, xsave: Use alloc_bootmem_align() instead of alloc_bootmem()

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jan 05 2011 - 19:29:22 EST


2.6.36-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 10340ae130fb70352eae1ae8a00b7906d91bf166 upstream.

Alignment of alloc_bootmem() depends on the value of
L1_CACHE_SHIFT. What we need here, however, is 64 byte alignment. Use
alloc_bootmem_align() and explicitly specify the alignment instead.

This fixes a kernel boot crash reported by Jody when the cpu in .config
is set to MPENTIUMII but the kernel is booted on a xsave-capable CPU.

Reported-by: Jody Bruchon <jody@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <20101116212442.059967454@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/xsave.c
@@ -394,7 +394,8 @@ static void __init setup_xstate_init(voi
* Setup init_xstate_buf to represent the init state of
* all the features managed by the xsave
*/
- init_xstate_buf = alloc_bootmem(xstate_size);
+ init_xstate_buf = alloc_bootmem_align(xstate_size,
+ __alignof__(struct xsave_struct));
init_xstate_buf->i387.mxcsr = MXCSR_DEFAULT;

clts();


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