From: Ian Campbell Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:58:47 +0000 (+0400) Subject: x86: Drop unnecessary kernel_eflags variable on 64-bit X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6eebdda35e6b18d0dddb2a44e34211bd94f0cad6;p=linux-beck.git 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 --- 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 diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index a5fbc3c5fccc..9961e2e23709 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 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) 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