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Revision 18bc7bd523e0fc5be8d76bf84bde733a97a8c375 authored by Andy Lutomirski on 10 August 2016, 09:29:14 UTC, committed by Ingo Molnar on 11 August 2016, 09:15:00 UTC
The initialization process for trampoline_cr4_features and
mmu_cr4_features was confusing.  The intent is for mmu_cr4_features
and *trampoline_cr4_features to stay in sync, but
trampoline_cr4_features is NULL until setup_real_mode() runs.  The
old code synchronized *trampoline_cr4_features *twice*, once in
setup_real_mode() and once in setup_arch().  It also initialized
mmu_cr4_features in setup_real_mode(), which causes the actual value
of mmu_cr4_features to potentially depend on when setup_real_mode()
is called.

With this patch, mmu_cr4_features is initialized directly in
setup_arch(), and *trampoline_cr4_features is synchronized to
mmu_cr4_features when the trampoline is set up.

After this patch, it should be safe to defer setup_real_mode().

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <mfleming@suse.de>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d48a263f9912389b957dd495a7127b009259ffe0.1470821230.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Tip revision: 18bc7bd523e0fc5be8d76bf84bde733a97a8c375 authored by Andy Lutomirski on 10 August 2016, 09:29:14 UTC
x86/boot: Synchronize trampoline_cr4_features and mmu_cr4_features directly
Tip revision: 18bc7bd
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