Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:07:36 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 8/14] i386 / Add a per cpu gdt accessor |
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* 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.
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