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-rw-r--r--arch/i386/boot/pm.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/pm.c b/arch/i386/boot/pm.c
index 6be9ca811d1..09fb342cc62 100644
--- a/arch/i386/boot/pm.c
+++ b/arch/i386/boot/pm.c
@@ -122,7 +122,11 @@ static void setup_gdt(void)
/* DS: data, read/write, 4 GB, base 0 */
[GDT_ENTRY_BOOT_DS] = GDT_ENTRY(0xc093, 0, 0xfffff),
};
- struct gdt_ptr gdt;
+ /* Xen HVM incorrectly stores a pointer to the gdt_ptr, instead
+ of the gdt_ptr contents. Thus, make it static so it will
+ stay in memory, at least long enough that we switch to the
+ proper kernel GDT. */
+ static struct gdt_ptr gdt;
gdt.len = sizeof(boot_gdt)-1;
gdt.ptr = (u32)&boot_gdt + (ds() << 4);