Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mce3

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irq.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts above.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/regs.c b/arch/x86/boot/regs.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..958019b1cfa5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/regs.c
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/* -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ *   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();
+}