x86 Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.28-rc8

VMI initialiation can relocate the fixmap, causing early_ioremap to
malfunction if it is initialized before the relocation.  To fix this,
VMI activation is split into two phases; the detection, which must
happen before setting up ioremap, and the activation, which must happen
after parsing early boot parameters.

This fixes a crash on boot when VMI is enabled under VMware.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
index 8b6c393ab9f..22fd6577156 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
@@ -960,8 +960,6 @@ static inline int __init activate_vmi(void)
 
 void __init vmi_init(void)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-
 	if (!vmi_rom)
 		probe_vmi_rom();
 	else
@@ -973,13 +971,21 @@ void __init vmi_init(void)
 
 	reserve_top_address(-vmi_rom->virtual_top);
 
-	local_irq_save(flags);
-	activate_vmi();
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
 	/* This is virtual hardware; timer routing is wired correctly */
 	no_timer_check = 1;
 #endif
+}
+
+void vmi_activate(void)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	if (!vmi_rom)
+		return;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+	activate_vmi();
 	local_irq_restore(flags & X86_EFLAGS_IF);
 }