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- 11 Mar, 2009 1 commit
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H. Peter Anvin authored
Impact: obsolete feature removal The zImage kernel format has been functionally unused for a very long time. It is just barely possible to build a modern kernel that still fits within the zImage size limit, but it is highly unlikely that anyone ever uses it. Furthermore, although it is still supported by most bootloaders, it has been at best poorly tested (or not tested at all); some bootloaders are even known to not support zImage at all and not having even noticed. Also remove some really obsolete constants that no longer have any meaning. LKML-Reference: <49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 17 Jul, 2008 2 commits
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H. Peter Anvin authored
Impact: None (cleanup only) Merge the GDT_ENTRY() macro between arch/x86/boot/pm.c and arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c and put the new one in <asm-x86/segment.h>. While we're at it, correct the bitmasks for the limit and flags. The new version relies on using ULL constants in order to cause type promotion rather than explicit casts; this avoids having to include <linux/types.h> in <asm-x86/segments.h>. Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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H. Peter Anvin authored
Merge the GDT_ENTRY() macro between arch/x86/boot/pm.c and arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c and put the new one in <asm-x86/segment.h>. While we're at it, correct the bitmasks for the limit and flags. The new version relies on using ULL constants in order to cause type promotion rather than explicit casts; this avoids having to include <linux/types.h> in <asm-x86/segments.h>. Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 19 Apr, 2008 1 commit
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WANG Cong authored
Remove old comments that include the old arch/i386 directory. Signed-off-by:
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 17 Apr, 2008 1 commit
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Paolo Ciarrocchi authored
Before: total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 178 lines checked After: total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 178 lines checked No code changed: arch/x86/boot/pm.o: text data bss dec hex filename 351 0 6 357 165 pm.o.before 351 0 6 357 165 pm.o.after md5: 81de3616bceb29691bf835bb62a84ff1 pm.o.before.asm 81de3616bceb29691bf835bb62a84ff1 pm.o.after.asm Signed-off-by:
Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 30 Jan, 2008 2 commits
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H. Peter Anvin authored
The GDT_ENTRY() macro in pm.c would incorrectly cut the bottom 8 bits off the base. We didn't define any bases with the bottom 8 bits nonzero, so it is a non-manifest bug, but it's still a bug. Pointed out by John Smith <johnsmith9344@gmail.com>. Cc: John Smith <johnsmith9344@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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H. Peter Anvin authored
Intel VT doesn't like to engage when the protected-mode state isn't fully initialized. Make life easier for it by initializing LDTR (to null) and TR (to a dummy hunk of low memory which will never actually be touched.) Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 11 Oct, 2007 1 commit
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 05 Sep, 2007 1 commit
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Christian Ehrhardt authored
Apparently XEN does not keep the contents of the 48-bit gdt_48 data structure that is passed to lgdt in the XEN machine state. Instead it appears to save the _address_ of the 48-bit descriptor somewhere. Unfortunately this data happens to reside on the stack and is probably no longer availiable at the time of the actual protected mode jump. This is Xen bug but given that there is a one-line patch to work around this problem, the linux kernel should probably do this. My fix is to make the gdt_48 description in setup_gdt static (in setup_idt this is already the case). This allows the kernel to boot under Xen HVM again. Signed-off-by:
Christian Ehrhardt <lk@c--e.de> Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 31 Jul, 2007 1 commit
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix comments typos in new x86 boot code. Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 18 Jul, 2007 1 commit
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H. Peter Anvin authored
Fix incorrect assembly constraints. In particular, fix memory constraints used inside push..pop, which can cause invalid operation since gcc may generate %esp-relative references. Additionally: outl() should have "dN" not "dn". query_mca() shouldn't listen 16/32-bit registers in an 8-bit only context. has_eflag(): the "mask" is only used well after both the stack pointer and the output registers have been touched; this requires the output registers to be earlyclobbers (=&) and the input to exclude memory (so "ri", not "g"). Thanks to Etienne Lorrain and Chuck Ebbert for prompting this review. Cc: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 12 Jul, 2007 1 commit
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H. Peter Anvin authored
This is the code which actually does the switch to protected mode, including all preparation. It is also responsible for invoking the boot loader hooks, if present. Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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