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Commit de90add3 authored by Markus Metzger's avatar Markus Metzger Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86, bts: fix wrmsr and spinlock over kmalloc



Impact: fix sleeping-with-spinlock-held bugs/crashes

- Turn a wrmsr to write the DS_AREA MSR into a wrmsrl.
- Use irqsave variants of spinlocks.
- Do not allocate memory while holding spinlocks.

Reported-by: default avatarStephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarkus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent c4858ffc
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