x86: fix possible x86_64 and EFI regression
Russ Anderson reported a boot crash with EFI and latest mainline: BIOS-e820: 00000000fffa0000 - 00000000fffac000 (reserved) Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc5-00100-gec0c15af-dirty #5 Call Trace: [<ffffffff80849195>] early_idt_handler+0x55/0x69 [<ffffffff80313e52>] __memcpy+0x12/0xa4 [<ffffffff80859015>] efi_init+0xce/0x932 [<ffffffff80869c83>] setup_early_serial8250_console+0x2d/0x36a [<ffffffff80238688>] __insert_resource+0x18/0xc8 [<ffffffff8084f6de>] setup_arch+0x3a7/0x632 [<ffffffff808499ed>] start_kernel+0x91/0x367 [<ffffffff80849393>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe3/0xe7 [<ffffffff808492b0>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x0/0xe7 RIP 0x10 Such a crash is possible if the CPU in this system is a 64-bit processor which doesn't support NX (ie, old Intel P4 -based64-bit processors). Certainly, if we support such processors, then we should start with _PAGE_NX initially clear in __supported_pte_flags, and then set it once we've established that the processor does indeed support NX. That will prevent early_ioremap - or anything else - from trying to set it. The simple fix is to simply call check_efer() earlier. Reported-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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