From 389a3c02496dd1b399bb0efd005e9fa2be24e9ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:46:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] xen: don't bother trying to set cr4
Xen ignores all updates to cr4, and some versions will kill the domain if
you try to change its value. Just ignore all changes.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
arch/i386/xen/enlighten.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/i386/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/i386/xen/enlighten.c
index f0c37511d8da..f01bfcd4bdee 100644
--- a/arch/i386/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/i386/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -623,8 +623,8 @@ static unsigned long xen_read_cr2_direct(void)
static void xen_write_cr4(unsigned long cr4)
{
- /* never allow TSC to be disabled */
- native_write_cr4(cr4 & ~X86_CR4_TSD);
+ /* Just ignore cr4 changes; Xen doesn't allow us to do
+ anything anyway. */
}
static unsigned long xen_read_cr3(void)
--
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