From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59228 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751228AbeBTK07 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2018 05:26:59 -0500 Subject: Patch "x86/entry/64: Remove the unused 'icebp' macro" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree To: bp@suse.de, bp@alien8.de, brgerst@gmail.com, dvlasenk@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, jpoimboe@redhat.com, luto@kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:26:07 +0100 Message-ID: <151912236771141@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/entry/64: Remove the unused 'icebp' macro to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-entry-64-remove-the-unused-icebp-macro.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From b498c261107461d5c42140dfddd05df83d8ca078 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Borislav Petkov Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:13:18 +0100 Subject: x86/entry/64: Remove the unused 'icebp' macro From: Borislav Petkov commit b498c261107461d5c42140dfddd05df83d8ca078 upstream. That macro was touched around 2.5.8 times, judging by the full history linux repo, but it was unused even then. Get rid of it already. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux@dominikbrodowski.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212201318.GD14640@pd.tnic Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/entry/calling.h | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/entry/calling.h +++ b/arch/x86/entry/calling.h @@ -159,10 +159,6 @@ For 32-bit we have the following convent .if \pop_rdi popq %rdi .endif - .endm - - .macro icebp - .byte 0xf1 .endm /* Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bp@suse.de are queue-4.14/x86-spectre-fix-an-error-message.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-the-unused-icebp-macro.patch queue-4.14/x86-kexec-make-kexec-mostly-work-in-5-level-paging-mode.patch