Messages in this thread |  | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [patch 17/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: avoid having a bad selector in %gs during context switch | Date | Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:10:02 +0100 |
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> /* > + * Temporary hack: zero gs now that we've saved it so that Xen > + * doesn't try to reload the old value after changing the GDT > + * during the context switch. This can go away once Xen has > + * been taught to only reload %gs when it absolutely must. > + */ > + loadsegment(gs, 0);
Sorry, but i don't really want that unconditionally in the context switch. Adding a paravirt ops for it would be also ugly. Can Xen be fixed?
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