Re: [PATCHv2 0/4] x86, entry: some cleanup and simplification...

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Jan 18 2015 - 07:05:15 EST


Hi,

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:45:16PM +0100, Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> The last patchset did not compile on i386. Please ignore it. This one
> should be better. Instead of removing KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET, it is now
> used consistently on both i386 and x86_64.
>
> Boot tested using qemu (using klibc for userspace)
> - x86_64, 32-bit userspace, core2duo (sysenter32)
> - x86_64, 32-bit userspace, phenom (syscall32)
> - x86_64, 32-bit userspace, vdso=0 (int 0x80)
> - x86_64, 64-bit userspace
> - i386, pentium3 (sysenter)
> - i386, athlon (syscall)
> - i386, vdso=0 (int 0x80)
>
> They were tested on top of 22f2aa4a0361707a5cfb1de9d45260b39965dead
> (x86/entry-devel in your tree) and this kernel is now running on my
> laptop.

btw, you might wanna sync with Denys who's doing cleanups in that area too:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421272101-16847-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx

and touching some of the stuff you're changing too.

Thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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