From: Brian Gerst Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:17:36 +0000 (-0500) Subject: x86, 64-bit: Set data segments to null after switching to 64-bit mode X-Git-Tag: v2.6.33-rc1~396^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8ec6993d9f7d961014af970ded57542961fe9ad9;p=pandora-kernel.git x86, 64-bit: Set data segments to null after switching to 64-bit mode This prevents kernel threads from inheriting non-null segment selectors, and causing optimizations in __switch_to() to be ineffective. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst Cc: Tim Blechmann Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Jan Beulich LKML-Reference: <1259165856-3512-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed