Re: [RFC PATCH 16/35] subarch support for interrupt and exception gates

Andi Kleen
2006-05-09T11:15:28Z

> +/*
> + * This needs to use 'idt_table' rather than 'idt', and
> + * thus use the _nonmapped_ version of the IDT, as the
> + * Pentium F0 0F bugfix can have resulted in the mapped
> + * IDT being write-protected.
> + */
> +void set_intr_gate(unsigned int n, void *addr)
> +{
> + _set_gate(idt_table+n,14,0,addr,__KERNEL_CS);
> +}

No need to duplicate the various set_*_gate functions into the subarchs.

> +static void __init set_task_gate(unsigned int n, unsigned int gdt_entry)
> +{
> + /* _set_gate(n, 5, 0, 0, (gdt_entry<<3)); */
> +}

Looks weird, but can be handled in the low level function.

-Andi