linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/4] xen/PVH: Use proper CS selector in long mode

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Message-ID: <6b7a748d-e289-c370-123a-678c6ad7d9dd@oracle.com>
Date:   Wed, 2 May 2018 10:57:17 -0400
From:   Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:     Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
Cc:     xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/4] xen/PVH: Use proper CS selector in long
 mode

On 05/02/2018 04:05 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 30.04.18 at 18:23, <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com> wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
>
> But to understand why things have been working nevertheless it would
> have been nice if the commit message wasn't empty, but instead said
> something like "The two happen to be identical on 64-bit."


Why do you think they are identical? __KERNEL_CS points to entry#12
(which we don't specify in PVH GDT) while __BOOT_CS is the second entry
(which we do create).

-boris