I am puzzled by the comment in tlb_state.cr4 , which says:
/*
* Access to this CR4 shadow and to H/W CR4 is protected by
* disabling interrupts when modifying either one.
*/
This does not seem to be true and adding a warning to CR4 writes when
!irqs_disabled() immediately fires in identify_cpu() and
__mcheck_cpu_init_generic(). While these two are called during boot, I think
there other CR4 changes with enabled IRQs, for example, PR_SET_TSC.
So my question(s): Is the comment correct? Is the current behavior correct?
Thanks,
Nadav
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