From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kip Macy Subject: Re: do_set_gdt Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:57:42 -0800 (PST) Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040229195625.G89683@demos.bsdclusters.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Keir Fraser Cc: Christian Limpach , xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org That is a nice complete definition. Why don't you paste it into interface.tex? -Kip > > frame_list: An array of up to 16 page frames within which the GDT > resides. Any frame registered as a GDT frame may only be mapped > read-only within the guest's address space (e.g., no writeable > mappings, no use as a page-table page, and so on). > > entries: The number of descriptor-entry slots in the GDT. Note that > the table must be large enough to contain Xen's reserved entries; thus > we must have 'entries > LAST_RESERVED_GDT_ENTRY'. Note also that, > after registering the GDT, slots FIRST_RESERVED_GDT_ENTRY to > LAST_RESERVED_GDT_ENTRY are no longer usable by the guest and may be > overwritten by Xen. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click