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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2019-03-19 11:35:46 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-04-03 11:02:24 +0200
commit64604d54d3115fee89598bfb6d8d2252f8a2d114 (patch)
tree8f2dd9b37fb0011a9814d57150307872db6f294e /arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
parentobjtool: Add Direction Flag validation (diff)
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sched/x86_64: Don't save flags on context switch
Now that we have objtool validating AC=1 state for all x86_64 code, we can once again guarantee clean flags on schedule. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c7
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index 026a43be9bd1..844a28b29967 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -393,13 +393,6 @@ int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp,
fork_frame = container_of(childregs, struct fork_frame, regs);
frame = &fork_frame->frame;
- /*
- * For a new task use the RESET flags value since there is no before.
- * All the status flags are zero; DF and all the system flags must also
- * be 0, specifically IF must be 0 because we context switch to the new
- * task with interrupts disabled.
- */
- frame->flags = X86_EFLAGS_FIXED;
frame->bp = 0;
frame->ret_addr = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork;
p->thread.sp = (unsigned long) fork_frame;