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authorPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>2012-01-11 21:11:29 +0200
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>2012-01-11 21:11:29 +0200
commit5878cf431ca7233a56819ca6970153ac0b129599 (patch)
treee5d21d04a0b468d2dabbe3a3824f23b5537fc6a7 /arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
parent74ee4ef1f901fbb014bdcdc9171d126490ce2b62 (diff)
parentb13683d1cc14d1dd30b8e20f3ebea3f814ad029f (diff)
Merge branch 'slab/urgent' into slab/for-linus
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; \