From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>,
Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Subject: [PATCH 9/21] i386 Deprecate obsolete ldt accessors
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:28:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511080428.jA84SCwt009890@zach-dev.vmware.com> (raw)
Old accessors to fetch LDT descriptors are unused and outdated and in
the wrong header file.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Index: linux-2.6.14-zach-work/include/asm-i386/system.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-zach-work.orig/include/asm-i386/system.h 2005-11-04 17:45:04.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.14-zach-work/include/asm-i386/system.h 2005-11-05 00:28:08.000000000 -0800
@@ -56,22 +56,6 @@ __asm__ __volatile__ ("movw %%dx,%1\n\t"
#define set_base(ldt,base) _set_base( ((char *)&(ldt)) , (base) )
#define set_limit(ldt,limit) _set_limit( ((char *)&(ldt)) , (limit) )
-static inline unsigned long _get_base(char * addr)
-{
- unsigned long __base;
- __asm__("movb %3,%%dh\n\t"
- "movb %2,%%dl\n\t"
- "shll $16,%%edx\n\t"
- "movw %1,%%dx"
- :"=&d" (__base)
- :"m" (*((addr)+2)),
- "m" (*((addr)+4)),
- "m" (*((addr)+7)));
- return __base;
-}
-
-#define get_base(ldt) _get_base( ((char *)&(ldt)) )
-
/*
* Load a segment. Fall back on loading the zero
* segment if something goes wrong..
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