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From: Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr>
To: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use descriptor's functions instead of inline assembly
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:23:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070720142319.GA23448@slug> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184939761.16311.22.camel@t60>

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 10:56:01AM -0300, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> This patch provides a new set of functions for managing the descriptor
> tables that can be used instead of putting the raw assembly in .c files.
>     
> Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
> 
> -	asm volatile ("str %0"  : "=m" (ctxt->tr));
> +	store_gdt((struct desc_ptr *)&ctxt->gdt_limit);
> +	store_idt((struct desc_ptr *)&ctxt->idt_limit);
> +	ctxt->tr = store_tr();
>  
Would'nt a store_tr(&ctxt->tr) be more homogeneous here?

Regards,
Frederik

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-20 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-20 13:56 [PATCH] Use descriptor's functions instead of inline assembly Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-07-20 14:23 ` Frederik Deweerdt [this message]
2007-07-20 15:14   ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-07-20 23:05   ` Brian Gerst
2007-07-21 16:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-20 18:14 Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-07-21  3:38 ` Chris Wright

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