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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2009-01-13 20:41:35 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-16 14:19:26 +0100
commitf32ff5388d86518c0375ccdb330d3b459b9c405e (patch)
tree8551cb03dcbbfafaac3500aac18fee811b0f1ffe /arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
parent3e5d8f978435bb9ba4dfe3f4514e65e7885db1a9 (diff)
x86: load pointer to pda into %gs while brining up a CPU
[ Based on original patch from Christoph Lameter and Mike Travis. ] CPU startup code in head_64.S loaded address of a zero page into %gs for temporary use till pda is loaded but address to the actual pda is available at the point. Load the real address directly instead. This will help unifying percpu and pda handling later on. This patch is mostly taken from Mike Travis' "x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area" patch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/head64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/head64.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
index bc2900ca82c..76ffba2aa66 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
#include <asm/bios_ebda.h>
#include <asm/trampoline.h>
-/* boot cpu pda */
-static struct x8664_pda _boot_cpu_pda;
+/* boot cpu pda, referenced by head_64.S to initialize %gs for boot CPU */
+struct x8664_pda _boot_cpu_pda;
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
/*