On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 02:49:29PM -0700, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> Restore the processor state before calling any other function to ensure
> per-cpu variables can be used with KASLR memory randomization.
>
> Tracing functions use per-cpu variables (gs based) and one was called
> just before restoring the processor state fully. It resulted in a double
> fault when both the tracing & the exception handler functions tried to
> use a per-cpu variable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgar...@google.com>
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> Based on next-20160808
Ok, I believe before I test this, I need to apply another patch from
Rafael. I think it is the "Always create temporary identity mapping
correctly" thing.
Yes, no?
Rafael, can you please apply everything on a test branch for us to run?
Thanks.
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