From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:43:11 +0000 (+0200) Subject: x86: fix cpu hotplug on 32bit X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc1~51^2 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=583323b9d2f624884a8c9563fb5a4d795f39ab07;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git x86: fix cpu hotplug on 32bit commit 3e9704739daf46a8ba6593d749c67b5f7cd633d2 ("x86: boot secondary cpus through initial_code") causes the kernel to crash when a CPU is brought online after the read only sections have been write protected. The write to initial_code in do_boot_cpu() fails. Move inital_code to .cpuinit.data section. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S index f67e93441ca..a7010c3a377 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S @@ -456,9 +456,6 @@ is386: movl $2,%ecx # set MP 1: #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ jmp *(initial_code) -.align 4 -ENTRY(initial_code) - .long i386_start_kernel /* * We depend on ET to be correct. This checks for 287/387. @@ -601,6 +598,11 @@ ignore_int: #endif iret +.section .cpuinit.data,"wa" +.align 4 +ENTRY(initial_code) + .long i386_start_kernel + .section .text /* * Real beginning of normal "text" segment