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Andy Lutomirski committed 7a5d6704874
x86/cpu: Probe the behavior of nulling out a segment at boot time AMD and Intel do different things when writing zero to a segment selector. Since neither vendor documents the behavior well and it's easy to test the behavior, try nulling fs to see what happens. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/61588ba0e0df35beafd363dc8b68a4c5878ef095.1460075211.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>