Re: [PATCH][2.6-mm] Fix 4G/4G X11/vm86 oops

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 03:15:04 EST


On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:44:05AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 05:09:28PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:32:10PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > >
> > > Zwane's got a K6-2 500MHz. I've just managed to reproduce this on my
> > > 1.4GHz Opteron box (with Debian gcc 3.2). Here, the "ooh la la" bit
> > > doesn't help. So my suspicion is that the printk is changing the
> > > timing just enough on Zwane's box that he's getting a timer interrupt
> > > knocking him out of vm86 mode before he hits a fatal bit in the fault
> > > handling path for 4/4. Printks in handle_vm86_trap, handle_vm86_fault,
> > > do_trap:vm86_trap, and do_general_protection:gp_in_vm86 never fire so
> > > there's probably something amiss in the trampoline code.
> >
> > Some more datapoints:
> >
> > CPU distro compiler video X result
> > K6-2/500 connectiva 9 2.96 trident 4.3 reboot (zwane)
> > K6-2/500 connectiva 9 3.2.2 trident 4.3 reboot (zwane)
> > Opteron 240 debian unstable 3.2 S3 4.2.1 reboot
> > Athlon 2100 debian unstable 3.2 radeon 7500 4.2.1 works
> > P4M 1800 debian unstable 3.2 radeon m7 4.2.1 reboot
>
> And indeed it does turn out to be a problem with the trampoline
> mechanics. The fix for -mm4:

Cleanup, as pointed out by Zwane:

Fix triple faulting on some boxes with 4G/4G


mm-mpm/arch/i386/kernel/vm86.c | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/vm86.c~virtual-esp arch/i386/kernel/vm86.c
--- mm/arch/i386/kernel/vm86.c~virtual-esp 2003-11-20 01:36:32.000000000 -0600
+++ mm-mpm/arch/i386/kernel/vm86.c 2003-11-20 02:08:38.000000000 -0600
@@ -303,10 +303,9 @@ static void do_sys_vm86(struct kernel_vm

tss = init_tss + get_cpu();
tsk->thread.esp0 = (unsigned long) &info->VM86_TSS_ESP0;
- tss->esp0 = virtual_esp0(tsk);
if (cpu_has_sep)
tsk->thread.sysenter_cs = 0;
- load_esp0(tss, &tsk->thread);
+ load_virtual_esp0(tss, tsk);
put_cpu();

tsk->thread.screen_bitmap = info->screen_bitmap;

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