Re: Regression: boot failure on AMD Elan TS-5500

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Maybe it really does require the far jump immediately after setting PE 
> in cr0...
>
> Hm, I don't remember this paragraph being in vol 3a, section 8.9.1 
> before.  Is it a recent addition?
>
>    Random failures can occur if other instructions exist between steps
>    3 and 4 above.  Failures will be readily seen in some situations,
>    such as when instructions that reference memory are inserted between
>    steps 3 and 4 while in system management mode.

I don't remember that, either.

Sean: could you try the following patch?

	-hpa
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/pmjump.S b/arch/x86/boot/pmjump.S
index ab049d4..141b6e2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/pmjump.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/pmjump.S
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ protected_mode_jump:
 	movw	%cs, %bx
 	shll	$4, %ebx
 	addl	%ebx, 2f
+	jmp	1f			# Short jump to serialize on 386/486
+1:
 
 	movw	$__BOOT_DS, %cx
 	movw	$__BOOT_TSS, %di
@@ -40,8 +42,6 @@ protected_mode_jump:
 	movl	%cr0, %edx
 	orb	$X86_CR0_PE, %dl	# Protected mode
 	movl	%edx, %cr0
-	jmp	1f			# Short jump to serialize on 386/486
-1:
 
 	# Transition to 32-bit mode
 	.byte	0x66, 0xea		# ljmpl opcode