linux/arch/x86
Jan Beulich e05139f256 x86-64: Don't apply destructive erratum workaround on unaffected CPUs
Erratum 93 applies to AMD K8 CPUs only, and its workaround
(forcing the upper 32 bits of %rip to all get set under certain
conditions) is actually getting in the way of analyzing page
faults occurring during EFI physical mode runtime calls (in
particular the page table walk shown is completely unrelated to
the actual fault). This is because typically EFI runtime code
lives in the space between 2G and 4G, which - modulo the above
manipulation - is likely to overlap with the kernel or modules
area.

While even for the other errata workarounds their taking effect
could be limited to just the affected CPUs, none of them appears
to be destructive, and they're generally getting called only
outside of performance critical paths, so they're being left
untouched.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E835FE30200007800058464@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-09-28 19:04:48 +02:00
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boot
configs
crypto
ia32 All Arch: remove linkage for sys_nfsservctl system call 2011-08-26 15:09:58 -07:00
include/asm asm alternatives: remove incorrect alignment notes 2011-09-15 13:28:33 -07:00
kernel x86, perf: Check that current->mm is alive before getting user callchain 2011-08-31 15:56:31 +02:00
kvm KVM: x86 emulator: fix Src2CL decode 2011-09-25 19:14:58 +03:00
lguest
lib atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
math-emu
mm x86-64: Don't apply destructive erratum workaround on unaffected CPUs 2011-09-28 19:04:48 +02:00
net
oprofile
pci Fix pointer dereference before call to pcie_bus_configure_settings 2011-09-09 19:49:58 -07:00
platform sfi: table irq 0xFF means 'no interrupt' 2011-08-26 09:03:29 -07:00
power
tools
vdso Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-08-23 18:09:08 -07:00
video
xen Merge branch 'stable/bug.fixes' of git://oss.oracle.com/git/kwilk/xen 2011-09-16 11:28:11 -07:00
.gitignore
Kbuild
Kconfig Merge commit 'v3.0' into x86/vdso 2011-08-04 16:13:20 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug
Makefile
Makefile_32.cpu