x86/head: Remove useless zeroed word

This zeroed word has no apparent purpose, so remove it.

Brian Gerst says:

  "FYI the word used to be the SS segment selector for the LSS
   instruction, which isn't needed in 64-bit mode."

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Byungchul Park <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Nilay Vaish <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b056855c295bbb3825b97c1e9f7958539a4d6cf2.1471535549.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
index e04814215f1554afb9d142e87bf84d7e2b49f581..c98a559c346ed0c2b5092181130b2a3a2f7b1dcf 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -328,7 +328,6 @@ ENDPROC(start_cpu0)
        .quad   INIT_PER_CPU_VAR(irq_stack_union)
        GLOBAL(initial_stack)
        .quad  init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE-8
-       .word  0
        __FINITDATA
 
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