x86: Fix code patching for paravirt-alternatives on 486
As reported in <http://bugs.debian.org/511703> and <http://bugs.debian.org/515982>, kernels with paravirt-alternatives enabled crash in text_poke_early() on at least some 486-class processors. The problem is that text_poke_early() itself uses inline functions affected by paravirt-alternatives and so will modify instructions that have already been prefetched. Pentium and later processors will invalidate the prefetched instructions in this case, but 486-class processors do not. Change sync_core() to limit prefetching on 486-class (and 386-class) processors, and move the call to sync_core() above the call to the modifiable local_irq_restore(). Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> LKML-Reference: <1252547631.3423.134.camel@localhost> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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