x86 Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.28-rc8

VMI initialiation can relocate the fixmap, causing early_ioremap to
malfunction if it is initialized before the relocation.  To fix this,
VMI activation is split into two phases; the detection, which must
happen before setting up ioremap, and the activation, which must happen
after parsing early boot parameters.

This fixes a crash on boot when VMI is enabled under VMware.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 9d5674f7b6cc..bdec76e55594 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -794,6 +794,9 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
         printk(KERN_INFO "Command line: %s\n", boot_command_line);
 #endif
 
+        /* VMI may relocate the fixmap; do this before touching ioremap area */
+        vmi_init();
+
         early_cpu_init();
         early_ioremap_init();
 
@@ -880,13 +883,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
         check_efer();
 #endif
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_VMI) && defined(CONFIG_X86_32)
-        /*
-         * Must be before kernel pagetables are setup
-         * or fixmap area is touched.
-         */
-        vmi_init();
-#endif
+        /* Must be before kernel pagetables are setup */
+        vmi_activate();
 
         /* after early param, so could get panic from serial */
         reserve_early_setup_data();