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SubjectRe: [PATCH 8/14] i386 / Add a per cpu gdt accessor
* Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de) wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:56:40PM -0700, zach@vmware.com wrote:
> > Add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdt. Callee must already
> > have the CPU.
>
> What is the accessor good for?
>
> It looks just like code obfuscation to me.

Xen handles gdt differently (one page per cpu instead of per_cpu data).
So this is for handling that access cleanly.

thanks,
-chris
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