Re: [RFC PATCH 18/35] Support gdt/idt/ldt handling on Xen.

Christian Limpach
2006-05-09T18:14:53Z

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:49:54AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >+static inline void load_TLS(struct thread_struct *t, unsigned int cpu)
> >+{
> >+#define C(i)
> >HYPERVISOR_update_descriptor(virt_to_machine(&get_cpu_gdt_table(cpu)[GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN + i]), *(u64 *)&t->tls_array[i])
> >+ C(0); C(1); C(2);
> >+#undef C
> >+}
>
> Please just expand this or make it a real function call (static inline),
> not a temporary macro ..

Yes, I've added an inline function to do a single descriptor.

Should I change the non-xen case as well? It was the inspiration
for this code ;-)

christian