linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 13/57] x86/head: remove useless zeroed word

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Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:05:53 -0500
From:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>,
	Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 13/57] x86/head: remove useless zeroed word

This zeroed word has no apparent purpose, so remove it.

Brian Gerst says:

  "FYI the word used to be the SS segment selector for the LSS
  instruction, which isn't needed in 64-bit mode."

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
index a212310..3621ad2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -328,7 +328,6 @@ ENDPROC(start_cpu0)
 	.quad	INIT_PER_CPU_VAR(irq_stack_union)
 	GLOBAL(initial_stack)
 	.quad  init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE-8
-	.word  0
 	__FINITDATA
 
 bad_address:
-- 
2.7.4