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  1. Feb 23, 2009
    • Stas Sergeev's avatar
      x86: minor cleanup in the espfix code · bda3a897
      Stas Sergeev authored
      
      Impact: Cleanup
      
      Checkin be44d2aa eliminates the use of
      a 16-bit stack for espfix.  However, at least one instruction remained
      that only operated on the low 16 bits of %esp.
      
      This is not a bug per se because the kernel stack is always an aligned
      4K or 8K block.  Therefore it cannot cross 64K boundaries; this code,
      in fact, relies strictly on that fact.
      
      However, it's a lot cleaner (and, for that matter, smaller) to operate
      on the entire 32-bit register.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarStas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
      CC: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
      CC: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      bda3a897
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