linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] x86: Remove direct access to internal x86 descriptor fields

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Date:	Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:21:40 -0700
From:	Joe Damato <ice799@...il.com>
To:	linux-x86_64@...r.kernel.org, w@....eu, mingo@...e.hu,
	hpa@...or.com, jeremy@...p.org, linux-newbie@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Joe Damato <ice799@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] x86: Remove direct access to internal x86 descriptor fields

Hi -

This patch set aims to remove the direct access to the 'a' and 'b' fields of 32-bit x86 descriptors. Static inline getters/setters are provided.

This is a resumbmit of a patch set I submitted several months ago[1]. My last patch set was a bit large, so I've tried to take a smaller bite this time and slowly build the cleanup effort over a series of patch sets.

Any and all comments, suggestions, and questions are welcome.

Thanks,
Joe Damato

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/24/459

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Joe Damato (2):
  x86: Add getter/setter static inlines for x86 descriptors
  x86: Replace direct access to descriptor fields with getter/setters

 arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h           |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h  |    5 +++--
 arch/x86/kernel/tls.c                 |    6 ++++--
 arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c              |    3 ++-
 arch/x86/lguest/boot.c                |    2 +-
 arch/x86/math-emu/fpu_system.h        |   20 ++++++++++----------
 drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c |   25 +++++++++++++------------
 drivers/lguest/segments.c             |   20 ++++++++++++--------
 drivers/pnp/pnpbios/bioscalls.c       |    4 ++--
 9 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

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