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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S index 98ea26a2fca..a0a2b5ca9b7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S @@ -242,13 +242,10 @@ ENTRY(secondary_startup_64) /* Set up %gs. * - * On SMP, %gs should point to the per-cpu area. For initial - * boot, make %gs point to the init data section. For a - * secondary CPU,initial_gs should be set to its pda address - * before the CPU runs this code. - * - * On UP, initial_gs points to PER_CPU_VAR(__pda) and doesn't - * change. + * The base of %gs always points to the bottom of the irqstack + * union. If the stack protector canary is enabled, it is + * located at %gs:40. Note that, on SMP, the boot cpu uses + * init data section till per cpu areas are set up. */ movl $MSR_GS_BASE,%ecx movq initial_gs(%rip),%rax @@ -281,7 +278,7 @@ ENTRY(secondary_startup_64) #ifdef CONFIG_SMP .quad __per_cpu_load #else - .quad PER_CPU_VAR(__pda) + .quad PER_CPU_VAR(irq_stack_union) #endif __FINITDATA |