[RFC PATCH] x86/head_64.S: remove redundant check that kernel address is 2M aligned

From: Alexander Kuleshov
Date: Fri Jan 22 2016 - 13:17:03 EST


We check that the base address of the kernel is 2M aligned in
the arch/x86/kernel/head_65.S right after jump to the decompressed
kernel. But we already have a check in the decompress_kernel()
which validates that kernel location is MIN_KERNEL_ALIGN aligned
which is 2M too for x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
index ffdc0e8..4967cba 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -75,12 +75,6 @@ startup_64:
leaq _text(%rip), %rbp
subq $_text - __START_KERNEL_map, %rbp

- /* Is the address not 2M aligned? */
- movq %rbp, %rax
- andl $~PMD_PAGE_MASK, %eax
- testl %eax, %eax
- jnz bad_address
-
/*
* Is the address too large?
*/
--
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