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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-04-21 01:14:25 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-04-21 01:14:25 -0700 |
| commit | 87eb367003887cdc81a5d183efea227b5b488961 (patch) | |
| tree | 40f617e25a9364d573e3cd2189c9e7fa56c8a0fe /drivers/lguest/x86/core.c | |
| parent | ccb7c7732e2ceb4e81a7806faf1670be9681ccd2 (diff) | |
| parent | 05d17608a69b3ae653ea5c9857283bef3439c733 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c
net/core/dev.c
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/lguest/x86/core.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/lguest/x86/core.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/x86/core.c b/drivers/lguest/x86/core.c index fb2b7ef7868..b4eb675a807 100644 --- a/drivers/lguest/x86/core.c +++ b/drivers/lguest/x86/core.c @@ -288,6 +288,18 @@ static int emulate_insn(struct lg_cpu *cpu) insn = lgread(cpu, physaddr, u8); /* + * Around 2.6.33, the kernel started using an emulation for the + * cmpxchg8b instruction in early boot on many configurations. This + * code isn't paravirtualized, and it tries to disable interrupts. + * Ignore it, which will Mostly Work. + */ + if (insn == 0xfa) { + /* "cli", or Clear Interrupt Enable instruction. Skip it. */ + cpu->regs->eip++; + return 1; + } + + /* * 0x66 is an "operand prefix". It means it's using the upper 16 bits * of the eax register. */ |