linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/8] Convert PDA into the percpu section

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Message-Id: <1173839230.5443.27.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:27:10 +1100
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...source.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] Convert PDA into the percpu section

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 10:15 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > +	pack_descriptor((u32 *)&gdt[GDT_ENTRY_PERCPU].a,
> > +			(u32 *)&gdt[GDT_ENTRY_PERCPU].b,
> > +			__per_cpu_offset[cpu], 0xFFFFF,
> >  			0x80 | DESCTYPE_S | 0x2, 0); /* present read-write data segment */
> >   
> 
> Why testing with qemu is not enough.

Indeed 8(.

Thanks!
Rusty.

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