[PATCH 2/2] xen: setup percpu data pointers

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Jan 29 2009 - 16:37:37 EST


We need to access percpu data fairly early, so set up the percpu
registers as soon as possible. We only need to load the appropriate
segment register. We already have a GDT, but its hard to change it
early because we need to manipulate the pagetable to do so, and that
hasn't been set up yet.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 3 +++
arch/x86/xen/smp.c | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

===================================================================
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -1646,6 +1640,9 @@
have_vcpu_info_placement = 0;
#endif

+ /* setup percpu state */
+ load_percpu_segment(0);
+
xen_smp_init();

/* Get mfn list */
===================================================================
--- a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
@@ -170,7 +170,8 @@

/* We've switched to the "real" per-cpu gdt, so make sure the
old memory can be recycled */
- make_lowmem_page_readwrite(&per_cpu_var(gdt_page));
+ make_lowmem_page_readwrite(__per_cpu_load +
+ (unsigned long)&per_cpu_var(gdt_page));

xen_setup_vcpu_info_placement();
}
@@ -235,6 +236,8 @@
ctxt->user_regs.ss = __KERNEL_DS;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
ctxt->user_regs.fs = __KERNEL_PERCPU;
+#else
+ ctxt->gs_base_kernel = per_cpu_offset(cpu);
#endif
ctxt->user_regs.eip = (unsigned long)cpu_bringup_and_idle;
ctxt->user_regs.eflags = 0x1000; /* IOPL_RING1 */


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