[PATCH 5/8] x86/head: remove useless zeroed word

Josh Poimboeuf
2016-08-18T19:37:39Z

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@redhat.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 e048142..c98a559 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