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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-12-06 21:10:05 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-12-06 21:10:05 -0500
commit959327c7842e8621e28b89acea7d57ff02b60972 (patch)
treeb00de195fa401186228796abdcd16812862fbf4d /arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
parentf84ea779c25dabc90956f1c329e5e5c501ea96cc (diff)
parentb835c0f47f725d864bf2545f10c733b754bb6d51 (diff)
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
index 084ef95..95203d4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
@@ -169,7 +169,14 @@ static inline int wrmsr_safe(unsigned msr, unsigned low, unsigned high)
return native_write_msr_safe(msr, low, high);
}
-/* rdmsr with exception handling */
+/*
+ * rdmsr with exception handling.
+ *
+ * Please note that the exception handling works only after we've
+ * switched to the "smart" #GP handler in trap_init() which knows about
+ * exception tables - using this macro earlier than that causes machine
+ * hangs on boxes which do not implement the @msr in the first argument.
+ */
#define rdmsr_safe(msr, p1, p2) \
({ \
int __err; \
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