From: Ingo Molnar Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 07:58:19 +0000 (+0200) Subject: x86/fpu: Fix boot crash in the early FPU code X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v4.3/legacy-v2-signed~41^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b96fecbfa8c8;p=pandora-kernel.git x86/fpu: Fix boot crash in the early FPU code Jan Kara and Thomas Gleixner reported boot crashes in the FPU code: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP RIP: 0010:[] [] mxcsr_feature_mask_init+0x1c/0x40 2b:* 0f ae 85 00 fe ff ff fxsave -0x200(%rbp) and bisected it down to the following FPU commit: 91a8c2a5b43f ("x86/fpu: Clean up and fix MXCSR handling") The reason is that the on-stack FPU registers state variable, used by the FXSAVE instruction, did not have the required minimum alignment of 16 bytes, causing the general protection fault. This is most likely a GCC bug in older GCC versions, but the offending commit also added a bogus extra 32-byte alignment (which GCC ignored too). So fix this bug by making the variable static again, but also mark it __initdata this time, because fpu__init_system_mxcsr() is now an __init function. Reported-and-bisected-by: Jan Kara Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Quentin Casasnovas Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150704075819.GA9201@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed