[PATCH 8/14] i386 / Add a per cpu gdt accessor

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Subject: [PATCH 8/14] i386 / Add a per cpu gdt accessor
From: ak at suse.de (Andi Kleen)
Date: Tue Aug 16 16:47:30 2005
In-reply-to: <200508110456.j7B4ue56019587@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:56:40PM -0700, zach@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdt.  Callee must already
> have the CPU.

What is the accessor good for? 

It looks just like code obfuscation to me.

-Andi

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