Redundant cli ?? [arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S]

DISCUSSION Romit Dasgupta 1 participant 1 message Jul 20, 2003

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Romit Dasgupta

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2003-07-20 16:42 UTC #0 lore raw

Hi,
Looks like cli is done two times in arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S.

The first occurence is in line number 33 just 2 lines after startup_32.
The second one is at line 103, just after the move_routine is moved to its rightful place and before transferring control to it. This looks like a redundant cli. The only place EFLAGS is directly touched is in line 53 (popfl) but that still has no effect on interrupt flag.

Please correct me if I am wrong, else the second cli may be removed.

Regards,
-Romit