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Commit 3d00daf4 authored by Roland McGrath's avatar Roland McGrath Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86: tls prevent_tail_call

Fix a kernel bug (vmware boot problem) reported by Tomasz Grobelny,
which occurs with certain .config variants and gccs.

The x86 TLS cleanup in commit efd1ca52


made the sys_set_thread_area and sys_get_thread_area functions ripe for
tail call optimization.  If the compiler chooses to use it for them, it
can clobber the user trap frame because these are asmlinkage functions.

Reported-by: default avatarTomasz Grobelny <tomasz@grobelny.oswiecenia.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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