From 6eebdda35e6b18d0dddb2a44e34211bd94f0cad6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Campbell Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:58:47 +0400 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Acked-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Andi Kleen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120824195847.GA31628@moon Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h index d048cad9bcad..9738b39e4eb9 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 -- cgit v1.2.3