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authorIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>2012-08-24 23:58:47 +0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-09-13 17:32:47 +0200
commit6eebdda35e6b18d0dddb2a44e34211bd94f0cad6 (patch)
tree16bde5b8ac1386699c4f9d5aef6b3fc68c834551 /arch/x86
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c4
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S2
3 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index d048cad9bca..9738b39e4eb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -423,7 +423,6 @@ DECLARE_INIT_PER_CPU(irq_stack_union);
DECLARE_PER_CPU(char *, irq_stack_ptr);
DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, irq_count);
-extern unsigned long kernel_eflags;
extern asmlinkage void ignore_sysret(void);
#else /* X86_64 */
#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index a5fbc3c5fcc..9961e2e2370 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -1116,8 +1116,6 @@ void syscall_init(void)
X86_EFLAGS_TF|X86_EFLAGS_DF|X86_EFLAGS_IF|X86_EFLAGS_IOPL);
}
-unsigned long kernel_eflags;
-
/*
* Copies of the original ist values from the tss are only accessed during
* debugging, no special alignment required.
@@ -1299,8 +1297,6 @@ void __cpuinit cpu_init(void)
fpu_init();
xsave_init();
- raw_local_save_flags(kernel_eflags);
-
if (is_uv_system())
uv_cpu_init();
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index 69babd8c834..b1dac12dc5e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
LOCK ; btr $TIF_FORK,TI_flags(%r8)
- pushq_cfi kernel_eflags(%rip)
+ pushq_cfi $0x0002
popfq_cfi # reset kernel eflags
call schedule_tail # rdi: 'prev' task parameter