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From: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org,
	zach@vmware.com, shai@scalex86.org, nippung@calsoftinc.com
Subject: Re: [discuss] [patch] x86_64:  align and pad x86_64 GDT on page boundary
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:26:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1134084367.7131.32.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051208231141.GX11190@wotan.suse.de>

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 00:11 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:09:17PM -0800, Rohit Seth wrote:
> >
> > IIRC, Zach's patches for gdt alignment, moved the gdts from per_cpu data
> > structure to each secondary CPU dynamically allocating page for its gdt.
> 
> Kiran's patch does this too.  Except for the BP GDT, which could
> be shared with the single IDT.
> 

...that padding in BP's GDT (in this and original patches) could be
because of the Xen requirements to have dedicated pages for gdt.

-rohit





  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-08 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-08 19:42 [patch] x86_64: align and pad x86_64 GDT on page boundary Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-12-08 20:15 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2005-12-08 21:55   ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-12-08 23:09     ` Rohit Seth
2005-12-08 23:11       ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-08 23:26         ` Rohit Seth [this message]
2005-12-08 23:26           ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-08 23:45             ` Rohit Seth
2005-12-08 23:43               ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-09 22:19                 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-12-09 22:57                   ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-09 23:01                   ` Rohit Seth
2005-12-09 22:59                     ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-09 23:46                       ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-12-12  2:34                   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-12  2:31                     ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-12  2:38                     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-08 23:50               ` Rohit Seth

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