Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/4] xen/PVH: Use proper CS selector in long mode | From | Boris Ostrovsky <> | Date | Wed, 2 May 2018 10:57:17 -0400 |
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On 05/02/2018 04:05 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 30.04.18 at 18:23, <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> wrote: >> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> > Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> > > But to understand why things have been working nevertheless it would > have been nice if the commit message wasn't empty, but instead said > something like "The two happen to be identical on 64-bit."
Why do you think they are identical? __KERNEL_CS points to entry#12 (which we don't specify in PVH GDT) while __BOOT_CS is the second entry (which we do create).
-boris
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