[tip:x86/urgent] x86, doc: Fix incorrect comment about 64-bit code segment descriptors

From: tip-bot for Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Mon Feb 25 2013 - 17:16:35 EST


Commit-ID: 1256276c98dbcfb009ac8e0687df9a1e291fd149
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/1256276c98dbcfb009ac8e0687df9a1e291fd149
Author: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:54:10 -0500
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:42:37 -0800

x86, doc: Fix incorrect comment about 64-bit code segment descriptors

The AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2, on page
89 mentions: "If the processor is running in 64-bit mode (L=1),
the only valid setting of the D bit is 0." This matches
with what the code does.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-4-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
index 980053c..37f5304 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ L3_START_KERNEL = pud_index(__START_KERNEL_map)
startup_64:

/*
- * At this point the CPU runs in 64bit mode CS.L = 1 CS.D = 1,
+ * At this point the CPU runs in 64bit mode CS.L = 1 CS.D = 0,
* and someone has loaded an identity mapped page table
* for us. These identity mapped page tables map all of the
* kernel pages and possibly all of memory.
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ ident_complete:
jmp secondary_startup_64
ENTRY(secondary_startup_64)
/*
- * At this point the CPU runs in 64bit mode CS.L = 1 CS.D = 1,
+ * At this point the CPU runs in 64bit mode CS.L = 1 CS.D = 0,
* and someone has loaded a mapped page table.
*
* %esi holds a physical pointer to real_mode_data.
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