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Impact: Cleanup
Checkin be44d2aabc eliminates the use of
a 16-bit stack for espfix. However, at least one instruction remained
that only operated on the low 16 bits of %esp.
This is not a bug per se because the kernel stack is always an aligned
4K or 8K block. Therefore it cannot cross 64K boundaries; this code,
in fact, relies strictly on that fact.
However, it's a lot cleaner (and, for that matter, smaller) to operate
on the entire 32-bit register.
Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
CC: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
CC: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>