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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shorten the x86_64 boot setup GDT to what the comment says
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> Hi Andi,
> 
> (Assuming you mean: "The gdt table already is 16-byte aligned.")
> 
> Hmm. Not in the most recent version of Linus' tree, not even by
> concidence, and none of the patches in your quilt-current/patches touch
> x86_64's version of setup.S. Am I missing something?

The main GDT is. The boot GDT isn't, but it doesn't matter because
it is only used for a very short time.

-Andi