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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-22 06:06:51 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-22 06:06:51 +0200
commit8b53b57576292b92b27769f9e213df19b6e57786 (patch)
treecd851ce4fa71b2653f120d7f11a9c6cbcf311b19 /drivers/char/hw_random
parentab7e79243746e2a9c5f00243e60108189c44c9eb (diff)
parent38cc1c3df77c1bb739a4766788eb9fa49f16ffdf (diff)
Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/pat
Conflicts: arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/hw_random')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/hw_random/via-rng.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/via-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/via-rng.c
index f7feae4ebb5..128202e18fc 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/via-rng.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/via-rng.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/msr.h>
#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
+#include <asm/i387.h>
#define PFX KBUILD_MODNAME ": "
@@ -67,16 +68,23 @@ enum {
* Another possible performance boost may come from simply buffering
* until we have 4 bytes, thus returning a u32 at a time,
* instead of the current u8-at-a-time.
+ *
+ * Padlock instructions can generate a spurious DNA fault, so
+ * we have to call them in the context of irq_ts_save/restore()
*/
static inline u32 xstore(u32 *addr, u32 edx_in)
{
u32 eax_out;
+ int ts_state;
+
+ ts_state = irq_ts_save();
asm(".byte 0x0F,0xA7,0xC0 /* xstore %%edi (addr=%0) */"
:"=m"(*addr), "=a"(eax_out)
:"D"(addr), "d"(edx_in));
+ irq_ts_restore(ts_state);
return eax_out;
}