cpu_init() (or something nearby) is broken and there is no clear way to
tell why. Adding printk's seems to make it go away. hpa seemed to have
a notion of what was going on around here.
Workaround below.
Cheers,
Bill
===== arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c 1.1 vs edited =====
--- 1.1/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c Fri May 10 09:06:30 2002
+++ edited/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c Thu Jul 11 22:09:41 2002
@@ -446,6 +446,8 @@
__asm__ __volatile__("lgdt %0": "=m" (gdt_descr));
__asm__ __volatile__("lidt %0": "=m" (idt_descr));
+ printk(KERN_INFO "Loading GDT/IDT for CPU#%d\n", nr);
+
/*
* Delete NT
*/
@@ -466,6 +468,8 @@
load_TR(nr);
load_LDT(&init_mm.context);
+ printk(KERN_INFO "Loaded per-cpu LDT/TSS for CPU#%d\n", nr);
+
/* Clear %fs and %gs. */
asm volatile ("xorl %eax, %eax; movl %eax, %fs; movl %eax, %gs");
@@ -483,4 +487,6 @@
clear_thread_flag(TIF_USEDFPU);
current->used_math = 0;
stts();
+
+ printk(KERN_INFO "Cleaned up FPU and debug regs for CPU#%d\n", nr);
}
-
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