From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
sct@redhat.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shorten the x86_64 boot setup GDT to what the comment says
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:01:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611101501.40007.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061109183111.GA32438@mailshack.com>
> Hi Andi,
>
> (Assuming you mean: "The gdt table already is 16-byte aligned.")
>
> Hmm. Not in the most recent version of Linus' tree, not even by
> concidence, and none of the patches in your quilt-current/patches touch
> x86_64's version of setup.S. Am I missing something?
The main GDT is. The boot GDT isn't, but it doesn't matter because
it is only used for a very short time.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-10 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-09 3:01 [PATCH] shorten the x86_64 boot setup GDT to what the comment says Steven Rostedt
2006-11-09 13:13 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-09 13:13 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-09 15:31 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2006-11-09 15:31 ` Jan Beulich
2006-11-09 13:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-09 13:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-09 14:54 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2006-11-09 15:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-11-09 15:44 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2006-11-09 13:33 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-09 18:31 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2006-11-10 14:01 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-11-10 15:46 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2006-11-12 13:47 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2006-11-11 5:17 ` [PATCH] make x86_64 boot gdt size exact (like x86) Steven Rostedt
2006-11-11 6:42 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-11 6:42 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-13 15:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-11-13 16:47 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-13 16:47 ` Andi Kleen
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