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authorKirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>2017-03-30 11:07:26 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2017-04-04 08:22:33 +0200
commit361b4b58ec4cf123e12a773909c6454dbd5e6dbc (patch)
tree6d03e4d551f83536ba2c7641485f84a912941267
parent3677d4c6a2010e4f5a0ca8b617b595fe4cc7ba6b (diff)
x86/asm: Remove __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT==47 assert
We don't need the assert anymore, as: 17be0aec74fb ("x86/asm/entry/64: Implement better check for canonical addresses") made canonical address checks generic wrt. address width. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
index 044d18ebc43c..f07b4efb34d5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -265,12 +265,9 @@ return_from_SYSCALL_64:
*
* If width of "canonical tail" ever becomes variable, this will need
* to be updated to remain correct on both old and new CPUs.
+ *
+ * Change top 16 bits to be the sign-extension of 47th bit
*/
- .ifne __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT - 47
- .error "virtual address width changed -- SYSRET checks need update"
- .endif
-
- /* Change top 16 bits to be the sign-extension of 47th bit */
shl $(64 - (__VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT+1)), %rcx
sar $(64 - (__VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT+1)), %rcx