Re: [patch] x86: fix savesegment() bug causing crashes on 64-bit

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
>     
> i spent a fair amount of time chasing a 64-bit bootup crash in 
> tip/master that manifested itself as bootup segfaults:
>   

Crap, I'm sorry.  I fixed this locally a couple of days ago, but I 
hadn't actually observed it causing any problems, so I didn't rush to 
push it out.

> The solution is to only allow segment operands to go to registers. This 
> fix allows my test-system to boot up without crashing.
>     
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
>   

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>

   J
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