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> > Make sure that we clear the "shutdown status flag" in the CMOS > > register after each CPU is brought up. This fixes a problem where the > > "shutdown status flag" may remain set when a CPU is brought up after > > booting. > > btw., what problem does this result in, exactly? The shutdown status flag set to "0xA", corresponds to "JMP double word request without INT init". This JMP at reboot time is at an unintended location. And results in Triple faults in our case. Though this error at reboot can be safely ignored in a VM environment, am not sure what the effect would be on a physical system. May be it will result in a triple fault and an eventual hardware reset thus masking this BUG in the kernel. This fix just makes sure that we reset that status flag after initialization is done. Fix paranoia about using BIOS quickboot mechanism. Make sure that we clear the "shutdown status flag" in the CMOS register after each CPU is brought up. This fixes a problem where the "shutdown status flag" may remain set when a CPU is brought up after booting. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Arai <arai@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
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