On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:43 PM, H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/16/2013 04:39 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> ok. so the old code is just for optimization to keep it cacheline aligned?
>>
>
> To the best of my knowledge. I guess I should look through the git log
> to make sure it isn't some old erratum fix.
>
looks like before
commit e57113bc1ff591005ec0b0fb4885d97c01de73d8
Author: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Mar 25 16:30:01 2006 +0100
[PATCH] x86_64: miscellaneous cleanup
- adjust limits of GDT/IDT pseudo-descriptors (some were off by one)
- move empty_zero_page into .bss.page_aligned
- move cpu_gdt_table into .data.page_aligned
- move idt_table into .bss
- align inital_code and init_rsp
- eliminate pointless (re-)declaration of idt_table in traps.c
it is PAGE aligned as it is after gdt page, after the commit, it is
cacheline aligned.
@@ -378,9 +378,12 @@ gdt_end:
/* zero the remaining page */
.fill PAGE_SIZE / 8 - GDT_ENTRIES,8,0
-ENTRY(idt_table)
- .rept 256
- .quad 0
- .quad 0
- .endr
+ .section .bss, "aw", @nobits
+ .align L1_CACHE_BYTES
+ENTRY(idt_table)
+ .skip 256 * 16
+ .section .bss.page_aligned, "aw", @nobits
+ .align PAGE_SIZE
+ENTRY(empty_zero_page)
+ .skip PAGE_SIZE
--
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