Re: [PATCH FIXED] x86: only enable interrupts when kernel statehas been set up

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The sysenter path tries to enable interrupts immediately.  
> Unfortunately this doesn't work in a paravirt environment, because not 
> enough kernel state has been set up at that point (namely, pointing 
> %fs to the kernel percpu data segment).  To fix this, defer 
> ENABLE_INTERRUPTS until after the kernel state has been set up.
>
> Unfortunately this means that we're running with interrupts disabled 
> for a while without calling the IRQ tracing code, but that can't be 
> called without setting up %fs either.
>
> [ Fix since last posting: make sure saved eflags has interrupts 
> enabled. ]

thanks Jeremy - will give it a shot.

	Ingo
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