linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/6] reboot.c to use struct Xgt_desc

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Date:	Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:05:31 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@...cam.ac.uk>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>, Pratap <pratap@...are.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/6] reboot.c to use struct Xgt_desc_struct

arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c defines its own struct to describe an ldt
entry: it should use struct Xgt_desc_struct (currently load_ldt is a
macro, so doesn't complain: paravirt patches make it warn).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Index: working-2.6.18-rc2-hg-paravirt/arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c
===================================================================
--- working-2.6.18-rc2-hg-paravirt.orig/arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c	2006-07-22 07:58:11.000000000 +1000
+++ working-2.6.18-rc2-hg-paravirt/arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c	2006-07-22 07:58:34.000000000 +1000
@@ -145,14 +145,10 @@
 	0x000092000100ffffULL	/* 16-bit real-mode 64k data at 0x00000100 */
 };
 
-static struct
-{
-	unsigned short       size __attribute__ ((packed));
-	unsigned long long * base __attribute__ ((packed));
-}
-real_mode_gdt = { sizeof (real_mode_gdt_entries) - 1, real_mode_gdt_entries },
-real_mode_idt = { 0x3ff, NULL },
-no_idt = { 0, NULL };
+static struct Xgt_desc_struct
+real_mode_gdt = { sizeof (real_mode_gdt_entries) - 1, (long)real_mode_gdt_entries },
+real_mode_idt = { 0x3ff, 0 },
+no_idt = { 0, 0 };
 
 
 /* This is 16-bit protected mode code to disable paging and the cache,

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