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diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S b/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S
index ba4282eba5bf..ebc6ac733899 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S
@@ -5,11 +5,8 @@
#include <asm/thread_info.h>
#include <asm/processor-flags.h>
-/*G:020 This is where we begin: we have a magic signature which the launcher
- * looks for. The plan is that the Linux boot protocol will be extended with a
- * "platform type" field which will guide us here from the normal entry point,
- * but for the moment this suffices. The normal boot code uses %esi for the
- * boot header, so we do too.
+/*G:020 This is where we begin: head.S notes that the boot header's platform
+ * type field is "1" (lguest), so calls us here. The boot header is in %esi.
*
* WARNING: be very careful here! We're running at addresses equal to physical
* addesses (around 0), not above PAGE_OFFSET as most code expectes
@@ -19,19 +16,14 @@
* The .section line puts this code in .init.text so it will be discarded after
* boot. */
.section .init.text, "ax", @progbits
-.ascii "GenuineLguest"
+ENTRY(lguest_entry)
/* Make initial hypercall now, so we can set up the pagetables. */
movl $LHCALL_LGUEST_INIT, %eax
movl $lguest_data - __PAGE_OFFSET, %edx
int $LGUEST_TRAP_ENTRY
- /* Set up boot information pointer to hand to lguest_init(): it wants
- * a virtual address. */
- movl %esi, %eax
- addl $__PAGE_OFFSET, %eax
-
/* The Host put the toplevel pagetable in lguest_data.pgdir. The movsl
- * instruction uses %esi, so we needed to save it above. */
+ * instruction uses %esi implicitly. */
movl lguest_data - __PAGE_OFFSET + LGUEST_DATA_pgdir, %esi
/* Copy first 32 entries of page directory to __PAGE_OFFSET entries.
@@ -47,7 +39,6 @@
/* Set up the initial stack so we can run C code. */
movl $(init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE),%esp
-
/* Jumps are relative, and we're running __PAGE_OFFSET too low at the
* moment. */
jmp lguest_init+__PAGE_OFFSET
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