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x86/boot: Simplify kernel load address alignment check
authorAlexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 09:27:46 +0000 (02:27 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 09:31:45 +0000 (11:31 +0200)
commita1b00d57298f013e5213dee6c1a5aba6766108ca
treeeb4b746f58265444670a5e977929822481f21168
parent7b354f89fd5a538ced93afd5563e77b85eadb669
x86/boot: Simplify kernel load address alignment check

commit a4733143085d6c782ac1e6c85778655b6bac1d4e upstream

We are using %rax as temporary register to check the kernel
address alignment. We don't really have to since the TEST
instruction does not clobber the destination operand.

Suggested-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Popov <alpopov@ptsecurity.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453531828-19291-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453842730-28463-11-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley (VMware) <matt.helsley@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Bo Gan <ganb@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S