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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/7] Use %gs for per-cpu sections in kernel
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    On Saturday 23 September 2006 00:43, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
    > Andi Kleen wrote:
    > > BTW I changed my copy sorry. I redid the early PDA support
    > > to not be in assembler.
    >
    > I went to the trouble of making the PDA completely set up before any C
    > code ran.

    Yes, but your patch never applied to anything even remotely
    looking like the code in my tree. I got so frustrated that
    I ended up reimplementing it in a cleaner way.

    Now head.S calls i386_start_kernel() and that calls pda_init()
    without any additional assembly code or other special cases etc.

    This is very similar to how x86-64 works.

    > which means that that they
    > have to work from the first function prologue.

    I mainly did it to fix lockdep.

    I used to do mcount hacks myself, but you typically need
    a few special annotations for those anyways so I am not too
    concerned about them.

    > It also simplifies things to get all that set up ASAP so there's no
    > bootstrap dependency problem.

    Yes no argument on that.

    -Andi
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