From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1950043AbcHRNQl (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:16:41 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:59590 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1947146AbcHRNQi (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:16:38 -0400 From: Josh Poimboeuf To: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H . Peter Anvin" Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski , Linus Torvalds , Steven Rostedt , Brian Gerst , Kees Cook , Peter Zijlstra , Frederic Weisbecker , Byungchul Park , Nilay Vaish Subject: [PATCH v4 13/57] x86/head: remove useless zeroed word Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:05:53 -0500 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.31]); Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:07:02 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --- arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S index a212310..3621ad2 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: -- 2.7.4