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authorIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>2012-08-24 15:58:47 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-09-13 11:32:47 -0400
commit6eebdda35e6b18d0dddb2a44e34211bd94f0cad6 (patch)
tree16bde5b8ac1386699c4f9d5aef6b3fc68c834551 /arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
parent816afe4ff98ee10b1d30fd66361be132a0a5cee6 (diff)
x86: Drop unnecessary kernel_eflags variable on 64-bit
On 64 bit x86 we save the current eflags in cpu_init for use in ret_from_fork. Strictly speaking reserved bits in EFLAGS should be read as written but in practise it is unlikely that EFLAGS could ever be extended in this way and the kernel alread clears any undefined flags early on. The equivalent 32 bit code simply hard codes 0x0202 as the new EFLAGS. This change makes 64 bit use the same mechanism to setup the initial EFLAGS on fork. Note that 64 bit resets EFLAGS before calling schedule_tail() as opposed to 32 bit which calls schedule_tail() first. Therefore the correct value for EFLAGS has opposite IF bit. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120824195847.GA31628@moon Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index 69babd8c834f..b1dac12dc5e6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
440 440
441 LOCK ; btr $TIF_FORK,TI_flags(%r8) 441 LOCK ; btr $TIF_FORK,TI_flags(%r8)
442 442
443 pushq_cfi kernel_eflags(%rip) 443 pushq_cfi $0x0002
444 popfq_cfi # reset kernel eflags 444 popfq_cfi # reset kernel eflags
445 445
446 call schedule_tail # rdi: 'prev' task parameter 446 call schedule_tail # rdi: 'prev' task parameter