Link function contexts directly to the previous context.

src/x64/code-stubs-x64.cc

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   // Setup the object header.
   __ LoadRoot(kScratchRegister, Heap::kFunctionContextMapRootIndex);
   __ movq(FieldOperand(rax, HeapObject::kMapOffset), kScratchRegister);
   __ Move(FieldOperand(rax, FixedArray::kLengthOffset), Smi::FromInt(length));
 
   // Setup the fixed slots.
   __ Set(rbx, 0);  // Set to NULL.
   __ movq(Operand(rax, Context::SlotOffset(Context::CLOSURE_INDEX)), rcx);
   __ movq(Operand(rax, Context::SlotOffset(Context::FCONTEXT_INDEX)), rax);
-  __ movq(Operand(rax, Context::SlotOffset(Context::PREVIOUS_INDEX)), rbx);
+  __ movq(Operand(rax, Context::SlotOffset(Context::PREVIOUS_INDEX)), rsi);
   __ movq(Operand(rax, Context::SlotOffset(Context::EXTENSION_INDEX)), rbx);
 
-  // Copy the global object from the surrounding context.
+  // Copy the global object from the previous context.
   __ movq(rbx, Operand(rsi, Context::SlotOffset(Context::GLOBAL_INDEX)));
   __ movq(Operand(rax, Context::SlotOffset(Context::GLOBAL_INDEX)), rbx);
 
   // Initialize the rest of the slots to undefined.
   __ LoadRoot(rbx, Heap::kUndefinedValueRootIndex);
   for (int i = Context::MIN_CONTEXT_SLOTS; i < length; i++) {
     __ movq(Operand(rax, Context::SlotOffset(i)), rbx);
   }
 
   // Return and remove the on-stack parameter.
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   __ Drop(1);
   __ ret(2 * kPointerSize);
 }
 
 
 #undef __
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal
 
 #endif  // V8_TARGET_ARCH_X64