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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-09-08 17:55:21 -0700
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-09-08 17:55:21 -0700
commitbbb20089a3275a19e475dbc21320c3742e3ca423 (patch)
tree216fdc1cbef450ca688135c5b8969169482d9a48 /arch/x86/boot/regs.c
parent3e48e656903e9fd8bc805c6a2c4264d7808d315b (diff)
parent657a77fa7284d8ae28dfa48f1dc5d919bf5b2843 (diff)
Merge branch 'dmaengine' into async-tx-next
Conflicts: crypto/async_tx/async_xor.c drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v2.h drivers/dma/ioat/pci.c drivers/md/raid5.c
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+/* -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * Copyright 2009 Intel Corporation; author H. Peter Anvin
+ *
+ * This file is part of the Linux kernel, and is made available under
+ * the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or (at your
+ * option) any later version; incorporated herein by reference.
+ *
+ * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+/*
+ * Simple helper function for initializing a register set.
+ *
+ * Note that this sets EFLAGS_CF in the input register set; this
+ * makes it easier to catch functions which do nothing but don't
+ * explicitly set CF.
+ */
+
+#include "boot.h"
+
+void initregs(struct biosregs *reg)
+{
+ memset(reg, 0, sizeof *reg);
+ reg->eflags |= X86_EFLAGS_CF;
+ reg->ds = ds();
+ reg->es = ds();
+ reg->fs = fs();
+ reg->gs = gs();
+}