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From: Joe Damato <ice799@gmail.com>
To: linux-x86_64@vger.kernel.org, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joe Damato <ice799@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 00/12] x86: Cleanup idt, gdt/ldt/tss structs
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:15:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224904532-9586-1-git-send-email-ice799@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <>

Hi -

This is my first submission to the kernel, so (beware!) please let me know if I can make any improvements on these patches.

I attempted to clean up the x86 structs for 32bit cpus that store IDT/LDT/GDT data by removing the fields labeled "a" and "b" in favor of more descriptive field names. I added some macros and went through the kernel cleaning up the various places where "a" and "b" were used.

I tried building my kernel with my .config and then also did a make allyesconfig build to help ensure I found everything that was using the old structure names. I also tried a few grep patterns. Hopefully I got everyone out.


Thanks,
Joe Damato

             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-25  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-25  3:15 Joe Damato [this message]
2008-10-25  3:15 ` [PATCH 01/12] x86: Cleanup x86 descriptors, remove a/b fields from structs Joe Damato
2008-10-25  3:15   ` [PATCH 02/12] x86: Use new gate_struct for gate_desc Joe Damato
2008-10-29 12:53     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-25  3:15   ` [PATCH 03/12] x86: Cleanup usage of struct desc_struct Joe Damato
2008-10-29 12:52     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-25  3:15   ` [PATCH 04/12] x86: Add macros for gate_desc Joe Damato
2008-10-29 12:54     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-25  3:15   ` [PATCH 05/12] x86: Refactor pack_gate " Joe Damato
2008-10-25  3:15   ` [PATCH 06/12] x86: Refactor pack_descriptor Joe Damato
2008-10-25  3:15   ` [PATCH 07/12] x86: Add a static initializer for IDTs Joe Damato
2008-10-25  3:15   ` [PATCH 08/12] x86: Use static intializer for IDT entries Joe Damato
2008-10-25  3:15   ` [PATCH 09/12] x86: Add static initiazlier for descriptors Joe Damato
2008-10-29 12:58     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-25  3:15   ` [PATCH 10/12] x86: Use static initializers " Joe Damato
2008-10-25  3:15   ` [PATCH 11/12] x86: Use macros for getting/setting descriptors Joe Damato
2008-10-25  3:15   ` [PATCH 12/12] x86: Use struct fields instead of bitmasks Joe Damato
2008-10-29 12:56     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-25  5:40 ` [PATCH 00/12] x86: Cleanup idt, gdt/ldt/tss structs Willy Tarreau
2008-10-27 10:57   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-25  9:39 ` walter harms
2008-10-27 10:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-27 14:34   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-27 21:15   ` Joe Damato
2008-10-27 23:02     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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