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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2007-10-13 14:43:54 +0100
committerDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2007-10-13 14:43:54 +0100
commitb160292cc216a50fd0cd386b0bda2cd48352c73b (patch)
treeef07cf98f91353ee4c9ec1e1ca7a2a5d9d4b538a /arch/i386/boot/pm.c
parentb37bde147890c8fea8369a5a4e230dabdea4ebfb (diff)
parentbbf25010f1a6b761914430f5fca081ec8c7accd1 (diff)
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Merge Linux 2.6.23
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-rw-r--r--arch/i386/boot/pm.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/pm.c b/arch/i386/boot/pm.c
index 6be9ca8..09fb342 100644
--- a/arch/i386/boot/pm.c
+++ b/arch/i386/boot/pm.c
@@ -122,7 +122,11 @@ static void setup_gdt(void)
/* DS: data, read/write, 4 GB, base 0 */
[GDT_ENTRY_BOOT_DS] = GDT_ENTRY(0xc093, 0, 0xfffff),
};
- struct gdt_ptr gdt;
+ /* Xen HVM incorrectly stores a pointer to the gdt_ptr, instead
+ of the gdt_ptr contents. Thus, make it static so it will
+ stay in memory, at least long enough that we switch to the
+ proper kernel GDT. */
+ static struct gdt_ptr gdt;
gdt.len = sizeof(boot_gdt)-1;
gdt.ptr = (u32)&boot_gdt + (ds() << 4);
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