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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2016-08-18 17:59:05 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-08-18 18:41:30 +0200
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parentx86/dumpstack: Remove extra brackets around "<EOE>" (diff)
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x86/head: Remove useless zeroed word
This zeroed word has no apparent purpose, so remove it. Brian Gerst says: "FYI the word used to be the SS segment selector for the LSS instruction, which isn't needed in 64-bit mode." Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b056855c295bbb3825b97c1e9f7958539a4d6cf2.1471535549.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
index e04814215f15..c98a559c346e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -328,7 +328,6 @@ ENDPROC(start_cpu0)
.quad INIT_PER_CPU_VAR(irq_stack_union)
GLOBAL(initial_stack)
.quad init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE-8
- .word 0
__FINITDATA
bad_address: