| Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 15/33] move segment checks to subarch | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:09:04 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 00:00 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > plain text document attachment (i386-segments) > We allow for the fact that the guest kernel may not run in ring 0. > This requires some abstraction in a few places when setting %cs or > checking privilege level (user vs kernel).
> - regs.xcs = __KERNEL_CS; > + regs.xcs = get_kernel_cs();
Hi,
wouldn't this patch be simpler if __KERNEL_CS just became the macro that currently is get_kernel_cs() for the XEN case? then code like this doesn't need changing at all...
Greetings, Arjan van de Ven
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