Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 5/5] x86/boot: Drop sym_fs()

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 17.01.2020 21:42, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> All remaining users of sym_fs() can trivially be switched to using sym_esi()
> instead.  This is shorter to encode and faster to execute.
> 
> This removes the final uses of %fs during boot, which allows us to drop
> BOOT_FS from the trampoline GDT, which drops an 16M arbitrary limit on Xen's
> compiled size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>


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