From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: proposed interface change for setting the ldt
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:03:23 +0100
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>     set_ldt(const struct desc_struct *ldt, int num_entries);
>>   =

> Make that
>
>     set_ldt(unsigned cpu, const struct desc_struct *ldt, int =

> num_entries);

Or maybe not.  The current code assumes that cpu is the current cpu =

anyway;  the implementation can use smp_processor_id() if it needs it =

anyway (Xen doesn't).

    J