From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932235AbVHKFop (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:44:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932239AbVHKFop (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:44:45 -0400 Received: from paleosilicon.orionmulti.com ([209.128.68.66]:22402 "EHLO paleosilicon.orionmulti.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932241AbVHKFoo (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:44:44 -0400 X-Envelope-From: hpa@zytor.com Message-ID: <42FAE59F.8070009@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:43:59 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc3 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Wright CC: Zwane Mwaikambo , zach@vmware.com, akpm@osdl.org, chrisl@vmware.com, Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk, mbligh@mbligh.org, pratap@vmware.com, virtualization@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/14] i386 / Add a per cpu gdt accessor References: <200508110456.j7B4ue56019587@zach-dev.vmware.com> <20050811054045.GU7762@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> In-Reply-To: <20050811054045.GU7762@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Wright wrote: > * Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@arm.linux.org.uk) wrote: > >>On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 zach@vmware.com wrote: >> >> >>>Add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdt. Callee must already >>>have the CPU. >> >>This one seems superfluous to me, does accessing it indirectly generate >>better code too? > > > It's prepratory for other work. > I am assuming it has no change on the code, right? (If it does, something is wrong...) -hpa