linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] docs: Fix incorrect comment about 64-bit code segment descriptors.

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Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:54:10 -0500
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, x86@...nel.org
Cc:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] docs: Fix incorrect comment about 64-bit code segment descriptors.

The AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2, on page
89 mentions: "If the processor is running in 64-bit mode (L=1),
the only valid setting of the D bit is 0." This matches
with what the code does.

CC: hpa@...or.com
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
index b7de3b2..6859e96 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ L3_START_KERNEL = pud_index(__START_KERNEL_map)
 	.globl startup_64
 startup_64:
 	/*
-	 * At this point the CPU runs in 64bit mode CS.L = 1 CS.D = 1,
+	 * At this point the CPU runs in 64bit mode CS.L = 1 CS.D = 0,
 	 * and someone has loaded an identity mapped page table
 	 * for us.  These identity mapped page tables map all of the
 	 * kernel pages and possibly all of memory.
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ startup_64:
 	jmp 1f
 ENTRY(secondary_startup_64)
 	/*
-	 * At this point the CPU runs in 64bit mode CS.L = 1 CS.D = 1,
+	 * At this point the CPU runs in 64bit mode CS.L = 1 CS.D = 0,
 	 * and someone has loaded a mapped page table.
 	 *
 	 * %rsi holds a physical pointer to real_mode_data.
-- 
1.8.0.2

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