From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762395AbYCUVDS (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:03:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759194AbYCUVDE (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:03:04 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.189]:57698 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757342AbYCUVDC (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:03:02 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=NTih6EfaBJWtzDVw7Ee+u0bdvXLeztERX1BC65vioCbdc9ABNUEkXC6JLEhjOsABdpI7kKiBT3Kld3DUyTF1RypMPyMPpWIToQerQwiA8oMAO5r0YlFiiaiBp2pOIZ0phd4Za2FegHZyBqukm9EUduC4O9RbKMCD/S6e/PTAcc8= Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:02:28 +0300 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: relocate_kernel - use predefined PAGE_SIZE instead of own alias Message-ID: <20080321210228.GD9424@cvg> References: <20080321201214.GA9424@cvg> <47E41805.5090602@zytor.com> <20080321204106.GB9424@cvg> <47E41F99.7090904@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47E41F99.7090904@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [H. Peter Anvin - Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:50:33PM -0700] > Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: >> [H. Peter Anvin - Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:18:13PM -0700] >>> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: >>>> This patch does clean up relocate_kernel_(32|64).S a bit by getting rid >>>> of local PAGE_ALIGNED macro. We should use well-known PAGE_SIZE instead >>>> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov >>> Looks good! >>> >>> -hpa >>> >> Thanks Peter for review, btw we have in relocate_kernel_32.S >> 188: movl %cr4, %eax >> 189: andl $0, %eax >> 190: movl %eax, %cr4 >> but maybe would be better just replace it with >> xorl %eax, %eax >> movl %eax, %cr4 >> or there is some nonobvious reason not to do so? > > The only case I can think of would be if the code expects to patch the > zero, but even then it'd be cantankerous, because gas will optimize that > zero down to a single byte. > > So, no :) > > -hpa > well, Peter, it seems I'm too tired on this week and misinterpred your message, my prev message with text "ah..." is wrong, i'll patch this code later (almost sleeping now ;) - Cyrill -