Hello, I really have no clue where to ask these kinds of questions so please excuse me if this is the wrong mailing list. However, I was working my way through the linux boot code as I am trying to understand to somewhat of a degree how Linux booting is done. I have gotten to the point, right before it switches to virtual address space. However, there is this one line that just bugs me. Maybe it's an actual bug (although I doubt it), but the call to `native_load_gdt` contains a virtual address space ptr, and I simply am wondering why in the world it is not page faulting. If I change it to be contained within `fixup_pointer` it still works, and nothing seems to have changed. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c#n617 What's the reason that in this case the pointer is not wrapped in 'fixup_pointer'? -- Kind regards, Harm
