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Commit 9c48c096 authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner
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x86/idt: Initialize early IDT before cr4_init_shadow()

Moving the early IDT setup out of assembly code breaks the boot on first
generation 486 systems.

The reason is that the call of idt_setup_early_handler, which sets up the
early handlers was added after the call to cr4_init_shadow().

cr4_init_shadow() tries to read CR4 which is not available on those
systems. The accessor function uses a extable fixup to handle the resulting
fault. As the IDT is not set up yet, the cr4 read exception causes an
instantaneous reboot for obvious reasons.

Call idt_setup_early_handler() before cr4_init_shadow() so IDT is set up
before the first exception hits.

Fixes: 87e81786

 ("x86/idt: Move early IDT setup out of 32-bit asm")
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarMatthew Whitehead <whiteheadm@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1710161210290.1973@nanos
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