From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992699AbXCGWlg (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:41:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992691AbXCGWlW (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:41:22 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:44069 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992693AbXCGWlO (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:41:14 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:40:53 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Vivek Goyal Cc: linux kernel mailing list , Reloc Kernel List , ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, ak@suse.de, hpa@zytor.com, magnus.damm@gmail.com, lwang@redhat.com, dzickus@redhat.com, rjw@sisk.pl Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/20] x86_64: wakeup.S misc cleanups Message-ID: <20070307224053.GC5956@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20070307065703.GA23412@in.ibm.com> <20070307071320.GL23412@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070307071320.GL23412@in.ibm.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > o Various cleanups. One of the main purpose of cleanups is that make > wakeup.S as close as possible to trampoline.S. > > o Following are the changes > - Indentations for comments. > - Changed the gdt table to compact form and to resemble the > one in trampoline.S > - Take the jump to 32bit from real mode using ljmpl. Makes code > more readable. > - After enabling long mode, directly take a long jump for 64bit > mode. No need to take an extra jump to "reach_comaptibility_mode" > - Stack is not used after real mode. So don't load stack in > 32 bit mode. > - No need to enable PGE here. > - No need to do extra EFER read, anyway we trash the read contents. > - No need to enable system call (EFER_SCE). Anyway it will be > enabled when original EFER is restored. > - No need to set MP, ET, NE, WP, AM bits in cr0. Very soon we will > reload the original cr0 while restroing the processor state. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal ACK, provided it was tested. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html