[PATCH 1/2] [POWERPC] Fix bogus paca->_current initialization

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed May 7 10:00:55 EST 2008


When doing lockdep, I had two patches to initialize paca->_current
early. One bogus, and one correct. Unfortunately both got merged
as the bad one ended up being part of the main lockdep patch by
mistake. This causes memory corruption at boot. This patch removes
the offending code.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---

 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S |    4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

--- linux-work.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S	2008-05-07 09:54:17.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-work/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S	2008-05-07 09:54:23.000000000 +1000
@@ -1517,10 +1517,6 @@ _INIT_STATIC(start_here_multiplatform)
 	addi	r2,r2,0x4000
 	add	r2,r2,r26
 
-	/* Set initial ptr to current */
-	LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE(r4, init_task)
-	std	r4,PACACURRENT(r13)
-
 	/* Do very early kernel initializations, including initial hash table,
 	 * stab and slb setup before we turn on relocation.	*/
 



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