x86-64, mm: Initialize VDSO earlier on 64 bits
When initrd is in use and a driver does request_module() in its module_init (i.e. __initcall or device_initcall), a modprobe process is created with VDSO mapping. But VDSO is inited even in __initcall, i.e. on the same level (at the same time), so it may not be inited yet (link order matters). Move the VDSO initialization code earlier by switching to something before rootfs_initcall where initrd is loaded as rootfs. Specifically to subsys_initcall. Do it for standard 64-bit path (init_vdso_vars) and for compat (sysenter_setup), just in case people have 32-bit initrd and ia32 emulation built-in. i386 (pure 32-bit) is not affected, since sysenter_setup() is called from check_bugs()->identify_boot_cpu() in start_kernel() before rest_init()->kernel_thread(kernel_init) where even kernel_init() calls do_basic_setup()->do_initcalls(). What this patch fixes are early modprobe crashes such as: Unpacking initramfs... Freeing initrd memory: 9324k freed modprobe[368]: segfault at 7fff4429c020 ip 00007fef397e160c \ sp 00007fff442795c0 error 4 in ld-2.11.2.so[7fef397df000+1f000] Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> LKML-Reference: <1276720242-13365-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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