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    [x86 setup] Work around bug in Xen HVM · ce29a1f8
    Christian Ehrhardt authored
    Apparently XEN does not keep the contents of the 48-bit gdt_48 data
    structure that is passed to lgdt in the XEN machine state. Instead it
    appears to save the _address_ of the 48-bit descriptor
    somewhere. Unfortunately this data happens to reside on the stack and
    is probably no longer availiable at the time of the actual protected
    mode jump.
    
    This is Xen bug but given that there is a one-line patch to work
    around this problem, the linux kernel should probably do this.  My fix
    is to make the gdt_48 description in setup_gdt static (in setup_idt
    this is already the case). This allows the kernel to boot under
    Xen HVM again.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Ehrhardt <lk@c--e.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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