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x86: remove open-coded save/load segment operations
authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:19:00 +0000 (00:19 -0400)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 8 Jul 2008 11:10:25 +0000 (13:10 +0200)
commitada857082317e6883cfcf7deb4e0c54d3c447cb0
tree0c87da9f4d6a1a96aa770ba6c54a80cfa088f9d2
parentaf2b1c609ff52b6469d8e67696db98c93c348b0e
x86: remove open-coded save/load segment operations

This removes a pile of buggy open-coded implementations of savesegment
and loadsegment.

(They are buggy because they don't have memory barriers to prevent
them from being reordered with respect to memory accesses.)

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c