Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: >On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 zach@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > >>Add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdt. Callee must already >>have the CPU. >> >> > >This one seems superfluous to me, does accessing it indirectly generate >better code too? > > Thanks for the feedback. I believe the binary compilation is the same. It is superfluous in the sense that there is not yet a real use for it, but it is needed for later developement. Xen requires page isolation of system data structures that could be used to override privilege. Since they do not shadow the GDT, they require the GDT to be write protected. A side effect of that is that the GDT must be moved to an isolated page. Thus, the accessors to allow transparently moving the GDT for a paravirtual build. There is deliberately no effect on the standard build. Zach P.S. Sorry I got your mail address wrong earlier. I mistyped it from the update to the CREDITS patch.
