On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 19:18 -0500, Brian Gerst wrote: 
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >>
> >> Cyrill Gorcunov (1):
> >>       x86: kernel_thread() -- initialize SS to a known state
> >
> > This looks bogus. Why does it do it only on x86-64?
> >
> > Either people care about SS or they don't (the answer, I suspect, is "they
> > don't"). But if they care, we should do it on both 32-bit _and_ 64-bit,
> > no?
> 
> 32-bit doesn't care about ss or esp since it won't pop them from the
> stack when returning to the same privilege level.

Right! That's the bit of behaviour I wasn't thinking of.

Thanks, Ian.

-- 
Ian Campbell

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