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Commit bda3a897 authored by Stas Sergeev's avatar Stas Sergeev Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86: minor cleanup in the espfix code

Impact: Cleanup

Checkin be44d2aa

 eliminates the use of
a 16-bit stack for espfix.  However, at least one instruction remained
that only operated on the low 16 bits of %esp.

This is not a bug per se because the kernel stack is always an aligned
4K or 8K block.  Therefore it cannot cross 64K boundaries; this code,
in fact, relies strictly on that fact.

However, it's a lot cleaner (and, for that matter, smaller) to operate
on the entire 32-bit register.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
CC: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
CC: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
parent 2366c298
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