- Introduced PER_CPU() macro to be used from asm
- Introduced GET_DESC_BASE() macro to be used from asm
- Rewrote the fixup code in asm, as calling a C code with the altered %ss
appeared to be unsafe
- No longer altering the stack from a .fixup section
- 16bit per-cpu stack is no longer used, instead the stack segment base
is patched the way so that the high word of the kernel and user %esp
are the same.
- Added the limit-patching for the espfix segment. (Chuck Ebbert)
[jeremy@goop.org: use the x86 scaling addressing mode rather than shifting] Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Acked-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>