From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:57 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] x86: Stop deleting nt
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc1~936^2~200
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2891dcdc4538e8f4ce50c9d1eea457cf2d81fb5b;p=linux-2.6

[PATCH] x86: Stop deleting nt

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@vmware.com>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
index cbc3206968..cca655688f 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -595,11 +595,6 @@ void __devinit cpu_init(void)
 	load_gdt(&cpu_gdt_descr[cpu]);
 	load_idt(&idt_descr);
 
-	/*
-	 * Delete NT
-	 */
-	__asm__("pushfl ; andl $0xffffbfff,(%esp) ; popfl");
-
 	/*
 	 * Set up and load the per-CPU TSS and LDT
 	 */