On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> It used to be used to check for _TIF_IA32, but the check has been removed.
>
> Remove GET_THREAD_INFO too.
>
> Run-tested.

Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>

Anyone know what the eflags reset code just above it is for?  Is it
because we used to allow NT in kernel eflags?

--Andy

>
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
> CC: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> CC: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> CC: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
> CC: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
> CC: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
> CC: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
> CC: Will Drewry <[email protected]>
> CC: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> CC: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
> index 0124f6f..7bc097a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
> @@ -507,8 +507,6 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
>
>         call schedule_tail                      # rdi: 'prev' task parameter
>
> -       GET_THREAD_INFO(%rcx)
> -
>         RESTORE_EXTRA_REGS
>
>         testl $3,CS(%rsp)                       # from kernel_thread?
> --
> 1.8.1.4
>



-- 
Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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