Commit a4733143 authored by Alexander Kuleshov's avatar Alexander Kuleshov Committed by Ingo Molnar

x86/boot: Simplify kernel load address alignment check

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: default avatarBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav 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.deSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 5e9ebbd8
......@@ -76,9 +76,7 @@ startup_64:
subq $_text - __START_KERNEL_map, %rbp
/* Is the address not 2M aligned? */
movq %rbp, %rax
andl $~PMD_PAGE_MASK, %eax
testl %eax, %eax
testl $~PMD_PAGE_MASK, %ebp
jnz bad_address
/*
......
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