Just after having obtained the pointer from kzalloc() there's no reason at all to set part of the area to all zero yet another time. Similarly there's no point explicitly clearing "ldt_ents".
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]> --- a/arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c @@ -290,8 +290,6 @@ cpu_initialize_context(unsigned int cpu, gdt = get_cpu_gdt_rw(cpu); - memset(&ctxt->fpu_ctxt, 0, sizeof(ctxt->fpu_ctxt)); - /* * Bring up the CPU in cpu_bringup_and_idle() with the stack * pointing just below where pt_regs would be if it were a normal @@ -308,8 +306,6 @@ cpu_initialize_context(unsigned int cpu, xen_copy_trap_info(ctxt->trap_ctxt); - ctxt->ldt_ents = 0; - BUG_ON((unsigned long)gdt & ~PAGE_MASK); gdt_mfn = arbitrary_virt_to_mfn(gdt);
