Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Jan 16 2010 - 15:35:27 EST




On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Cyrill Gorcunov (1):
> x86: kernel_thread() -- initialize SS to a known state

This looks bogus. Why does it do it only on x86-64?

Either people care about SS or they don't (the answer, I suspect, is "they
don't"). But if they care, we should do it on both 32-bit _and_ 64-bit,
no?

Linus
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