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From: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@soft.fujitsu.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:22:45 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH]IA64 kexec/kdump patch for INIT
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On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:06:53 +0900, Takao Indoh wrote:

>>>+		/* change region of gp to region5 */
>>>+		asm volatile ("movl gp=__gp"::: "memory");
>>
>>Why?  gp is already pointing at the kernel code before we enter
>>ia64_init_handler().
>
>The purpose of this code is just changing region of gp from region7 to 
>region5. For example, if gp is e000000004ace170, I want to change gp to
                                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~e000000000ace170
Sorry, I mistook address...


Regards,
Takao Indoh