From: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, ak@suse.de,
mingo@elte.hu, chrisw@sous-sol.org, jeremy@goop.org,
avi@qumranet.com, anthony@codemonkey.ws,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, lguest@ozlabs.org,
kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, zach@vmware.com,
tglx@linutronix.de, jun.nakajima@intel.com, glommer@gmail.com,
Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH 10/16] export cpu_gdt_descr
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:14:55 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11938581562552-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11938581512730-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com>
With paravirualization, hypervisors needs to handle the gdt,
that was right to this point only used at very early
inialization code. Hypervisors (lguest being the current case)
are commonly modules, so make it an export
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c
index 77c25b3..a005d67 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
+#include <asm/desc.h>
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread);
@@ -60,3 +61,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(init_level4_pgt);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(load_gs_index);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(_proxy_pda);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
+/* Virtualized guests may want to use it */
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_gdt_descr);
+#endif
--
1.4.4.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-31 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-31 19:14 [PATCH 0/7] (Re-)introducing pvops for x86_64 - Real pvops work part Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-31 19:14 ` [PATCH 1/16] Wipe out traditional opt from x86_64 Makefile Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-31 19:14 ` [PATCH 2/16] paravirt hooks at entry functions Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-31 19:14 ` [PATCH 3/16] read/write_crX, clts and wbinvd for 64-bit paravirt Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-31 19:14 ` [PATCH 4/16] provide native irq initialization function Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-31 19:14 ` [PATCH 5/16] report ring kernel is running without paravirt Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-31 19:14 ` [PATCH 6/16] export math_state_restore Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-31 19:14 ` [PATCH 7/16] native versions for set pagetables Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-31 19:14 ` [PATCH 8/16] add native functions for descriptors handling Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-31 19:14 ` [PATCH 9/16] This patch add provisions for time related functions so they Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-31 19:14 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa [this message]
2007-10-31 19:14 ` [PATCH 11/16] turn priviled operation into a macro in head_64.S Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-31 19:14 ` [PATCH 12/16] tweak io_64.h for paravirt Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-31 19:14 ` [PATCH 13/16] native versions for page table entries values Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-31 19:14 ` [PATCH 14/16] prepare x86_64 architecture initialization for paravirt Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-31 19:15 ` [PATCH 15/16] consolidation of paravirt for 32 and 64 bits Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-10-31 19:15 ` [PATCH 16/16] make vsmp a paravirt client Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-11-01 4:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-01 4:50 ` [PATCH 11/16] turn priviled operation into a macro in head_64.S Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-01 13:50 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-11-01 4:48 ` [PATCH 3/16] read/write_crX, clts and wbinvd for 64-bit paravirt Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-01 13:48 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-11-01 15:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-01 16:07 ` Keir Fraser
2007-11-01 16:13 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-11-01 17:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-01 16:55 ` [Lguest] " Zachary Amsden
2007-11-02 1:21 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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