Re: perf_fuzzer compiled for x32 causes reboot

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:11:11 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 09:57:26PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > @@ -512,8 +508,21 @@ static inline void nmi_nesting_postprocess(void)
> >  dotraplinkage notrace __kprobes void
> >  do_nmi(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
> >  {
> > +	unsigned long cr2;
> > +	
> >  	nmi_nesting_preprocess(regs);
> >  
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Save off the CR2 register. If we take a page fault in the NMI then
> > +	 * it could corrupt the CR2 value. If the NMI preempts a page fault
> > +	 * handler before it was able to read the CR2 register, and then the
> > +	 * NMI itself takes a page fault, the page fault that was preempted
> > +	 * will read the information from the NMI page fault and not the
> > +	 * origin fault. Save it off and restore it if it changes.
> 
> > +	 * Use the r12 callee-saved register.
> 
> You might want to make that line go away :-)
> 

Gah! I noticed that before sending and deleted the line, recreated the
patch and sent that out. The one step I forgot to do was to save the
file after deleting it :-p

-- Steve
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