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From: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Boot failure in 2.5.31 BK with new TLS patch
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 20:50:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D5E9B03.4070503@iram.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0208171134070.3169-100000@home.transmeta.com

Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > The gdt descriptor alignment really shouldn't matter, but that bogus
 > GDT _size_ thing in the descriptor might do it.

Indeed.


 > Right now it's set to be 0x8000, which is not a legal GDT size (it
 > should be of the form n*8-1), and is nonsensical anyway (the comment
 > says 2048 entries, but the fact is, we don't _have_ 2048 entries in
 > there).

In my source tree pulled about at the end of last night here (10pm in 
California) it is still GDT_ENTRIES*8-1. Time to pull :-)

	Gabriel.

P.S: since the first entry is not used, the first 8 bytes could be filled
with
	1:	.word 0
gdt_table_desc: .word GDT_ENTRIES*8-1
		.long 1b

to eliminate the array of GDT descriptors and save a few bytes.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-08-17 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-17  0:31 Boot failure in 2.5.31 BK with new TLS patch James Bottomley
2002-08-17  6:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-17 15:16   ` James Bottomley
2002-08-17 16:17     ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-02  8:20       ` Pavel Machek
2002-08-17 17:09       ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-08-17 17:18         ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-17 17:20         ` James Bottomley
2002-08-17 18:26           ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-08-17 18:36             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-17 18:42               ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-17 18:50               ` Gabriel Paubert [this message]
2002-08-17 18:53               ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-17 21:42                 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-18  3:29                 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-17 22:34               ` James Bottomley
2002-08-18  8:35                 ` Ingo Molnar

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