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authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>2012-01-27 11:14:02 -0500
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>2012-01-27 11:14:02 -0500
commit6c02b7b1610f873888af20f291c07730889ff0f9 (patch)
tree1b33e6642cc81605b8d37c0bda0abff0ba64fa2d /arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
parent7a7546b377bdaa25ac77f33d9433c59f259b9688 (diff)
parentdcd6c92267155e70a94b3927bce681ce74b80d1f (diff)
Merge commit 'v3.3-rc1' into stable/for-linus-fixes-3.3
* commit 'v3.3-rc1': (9775 commits) Linux 3.3-rc1 x86, syscall: Need __ARCH_WANT_SYS_IPC for 32 bits qnx4: don't leak ->BitMap on late failure exits qnx4: reduce the insane nesting in qnx4_checkroot() qnx4: di_fname is an array, for crying out loud... KEYS: Permit key_serial() to be called with a const key pointer keys: fix user_defined key sparse messages ima: fix cred sparse warning uml: fix compile for x86-64 MPILIB: Add a missing ENOMEM check tpm: fix (ACPI S3) suspend regression nvme: fix merge error due to change of 'make_request_fn' fn type xen: using EXPORT_SYMBOL requires including export.h gpio: tps65910: Use correct offset for gpio initialization acpi/apei/einj: Add extensions to EINJ from rev 5.0 of acpi spec intel_idle: Split up and provide per CPU initialization func ACPI processor: Remove unneeded variable passed by acpi_processor_hotadd_init V2 tg3: Fix single-vector MSI-X code openvswitch: Fix multipart datapath dumps. ipv6: fix per device IP snmp counters ...
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
index 084ef95274c..95203d40ffd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
@@ -169,7 +169,14 @@ static inline int wrmsr_safe(unsigned msr, unsigned low, unsigned high)
return native_write_msr_safe(msr, low, high);
}
-/* rdmsr with exception handling */
+/*
+ * rdmsr with exception handling.
+ *
+ * Please note that the exception handling works only after we've
+ * switched to the "smart" #GP handler in trap_init() which knows about
+ * exception tables - using this macro earlier than that causes machine
+ * hangs on boxes which do not implement the @msr in the first argument.
+ */
#define rdmsr_safe(msr, p1, p2) \
({ \
int __err; \