On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> I'm not entirely sure that it needs to be a long-jump, btw. I think any
> regular branch is sufficient. You obviously *do* need to make the long 
> jump later (to reload %cs in protected mode), but I'm not sure it's needed 
> in that place. I forget the exact rules (but they definitely were 
> documented).

Hmm. The original Linux code did

	movw    $1, %ax
	lmsw    %ax
	jmp     flush_instr
    flush_instr:

and I think that was straigh out of the documentation. So yeah, I think 
that's the right fix - not a longjmp (which in itself is dangerous: it 
potentially behaves *differently* on different CPU's, since some CPU's may 
do the long jump with pre-protected-mode semantics, while others will do 
it with protected mode already in effect!)

			Linus
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