[PATCH 8/10] Stop deleting nt

From: Zachary Amsden
Date: Wed Nov 09 2005 - 19:43:56 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/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c 2005-11-09 01:46:44.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.14/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c 2005-11-09 06:13:51.000000000 -0800
@@ -604,11 +604,6 @@
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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