Re: [PATCH 08/62] x86/boot/compressed/64: Add IDT Infrastructure

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Feb 14 2020 - 14:40:38 EST


Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> + addq $8, %rsp
> +
> + /*
> + * Make sure we return to __KERNEL_CS - the CS selector on
> + * the IRET frame might still be from an old BIOS GDT
> + */
> + movq $__KERNEL_CS, 8(%rsp)

This doesn't make sense. Either it's running on the correct CS
before the exception or not. Likely there's some other problem
here that you patched over with this hack.

-Andi