Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:14:49 -0800 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/8] Use per-cpu variables for GDT, PDA |
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Rusty Russell wrote: > Allocating PDA and GDT at boot is a pain. Using simple per-cpu > variables adds happiness (although we need the GDT page-aligned for > Xen, see later). >
Not just Xen. Apparently it leads to general goodness.
> Finally, we can simply call it "cpu_gdt" rather than enduring the > superfluous and unnecessarily redundant tautology of "cpu_gdt_table". >
Ah, well, at least it isn't excessive.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
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