From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965508AbXCFSO4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:14:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965560AbXCFSO4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:14:56 -0500 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:33041 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965508AbXCFSOv (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:14:51 -0500 Message-ID: <45EDAF99.7080709@goop.org> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:14:49 -0800 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rusty Russell CC: lkml - Kernel Mailing List , Zachary Amsden , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] Use per-cpu variables for GDT, PDA References: <1173184747.4644.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1173185592.4644.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1173185666.4644.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1173185734.4644.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1173185734.4644.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rusty Russell wrote: > Allocating PDA and GDT at boot is a pain. Using simple per-cpu > variables adds happiness (although we need the GDT page-aligned for > Xen, see later). > Not just Xen. Apparently it leads to general goodness. > Finally, we can simply call it "cpu_gdt" rather than enduring the > superfluous and unnecessarily redundant tautology of "cpu_gdt_table". > Ah, well, at least it isn't excessive. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge J