Re: [PATCH] Fix resume on x86-32 machines

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Dec 11 2017 - 10:13:22 EST



* Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>
> > On Dec 10, 2017, at 1:38 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > After 4.15-rc2, suspend stopped working on Thinkpad X60. 5b06bbc
> > (unintentionally?) reordered stuff with respect to
> > fix_processor_context() on 32-bit and 64-bit. We undo that change on
> > 32-bit.
> >
>
> Can you explain what was wrong with the reordering? Your patch certainly *looks* incorrect.
>
> I'm guessing that the real issue is that 32-bit needs %fs restored early for TLS.

Does some early percpu primitive need GS as well perhaps?

Might be safest to restore both FS and GS early.

Thanks,

Ingo