Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Boot failure in 2.5.31 BK with new TLS patch | Date | Sat, 17 Aug 2002 12:20:44 -0500 | From | James Bottomley <> |
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paubert@iram.es said: > Hey no, it's cpu_gdt_table that must be aligned. That one does not > matter, it's only used once for the lgdt instruction...
Actually, the intel manual recommends (but doesn't require) a wierd alignment for the descriptors. It recommends aligning them at an address which is 2 MOD 4 to avoid possible alignment check faults in user mode. Not that I think we can ever run into the problem, but we should probably obey the recommendation. I'll fix this up as well.
James
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