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Commit 67a6af7a authored by Arvind Sankar's avatar Arvind Sankar Committed by Ard Biesheuvel
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x86/boot: Remove KEEP_SEGMENTS support

Commit a24e7851 ("i386: paravirt boot sequence") added this flag for
use by paravirtualized environments such as Xen. However, Xen never made
use of this flag [1], and it was only ever used by lguest [2].

Commit ecda85e7

 ("x86/lguest: Remove lguest support") removed
lguest, so KEEP_SEGMENTS has lost its last user.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4D4B097C.5050405@goop.org
[2] https://www.mail-archive.com/lguest@lists.ozlabs.org/msg00469.html

Signed-off-by: default avatarArvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200202171353.3736319-2-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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