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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S8
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h4
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
index 3de91a7e6c99..5df831ef1442 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -65,6 +65,14 @@ startup_64:
* tables and then reload them.
*/
+ /*
+ * Setup stack for verify_cpu(). "-8" because stack_start is defined
+ * this way, see below. Our best guess is a NULL ptr for stack
+ * termination heuristics and we don't want to break anything which
+ * might depend on it (kgdb, ...).
+ */
+ leaq (__end_init_task - 8)(%rip), %rsp
+
/* Sanitize CPU configuration */
call verify_cpu
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 339125bb4d2c..6a67ab94b553 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -245,7 +245,9 @@
#define INIT_TASK_DATA(align) \
. = ALIGN(align); \
- *(.data..init_task)
+ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_init_task) = .; \
+ *(.data..init_task) \
+ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__end_init_task) = .;
/*
* Read only Data