[PATCH] i386: espfix cleanup
Clean up the espfix code: - Introduced PER_CPU() macro to be used from asm - Introduced GET_DESC_BASE() macro to be used from asm - Rewrote the fixup code in asm, as calling a C code with the altered %ss appeared to be unsafe - No longer altering the stack from a .fixup section - 16bit per-cpu stack is no longer used, instead the stack segment base is patched the way so that the high word of the kernel and user %esp are the same. - Added the limit-patching for the espfix segment. (Chuck Ebbert) [jeremy@goop.org: use the x86 scaling addressing mode rather than shifting] Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Acked-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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