[PATCH 11/21] i386 Stop deleting nt

From: Zachary Amsden
Date: Mon Nov 07 2005 - 23:30:28 EST


Stop deleting NT bit from EFLAGS. See arch/i386/kernel/head.S line 223,
which does something even better.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx>
Index: linux-2.6.14-zach-work/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-zach-work.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c 2005-11-04 17:45:05.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.14-zach-work/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c 2005-11-05 00:28:08.000000000 -0800
@@ -617,11 +617,6 @@ void __devinit cpu_init(void)
load_idt(&idt_descr);

/*
- * Delete NT
- */
- __asm__("pushfl ; andl $0xffffbfff,(%esp) ; popfl");
-
- /*
* Set up and load the per-CPU TSS and LDT
*/
atomic_inc(&init_mm.mm_count);
-
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