Re: [PATCH] x86: relocate_kernel - use predefined PAGE_SIZEinstead of own alias

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Fri Mar 21 2008 - 16:41:52 EST


[H. Peter Anvin - Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:18:13PM -0700]
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>> This patch does clean up relocate_kernel_(32|64).S a bit by getting rid
>> of local PAGE_ALIGNED macro. We should use well-known PAGE_SIZE instead
>> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks good!
>
> -hpa
>

Thanks Peter for review, btw we have in relocate_kernel_32.S

188: movl %cr4, %eax
189: andl $0, %eax
190: movl %eax, %cr4

but maybe would be better just replace it with

xorl %eax, %eax
movl %eax, %cr4

or there is some nonobvious reason not to do so?

- Cyrill -
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