* Andi Kleen (ak@xxxxxxx) wrote: > 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. Xen handles gdt differently (one page per cpu instead of per_cpu data). So this is for handling that access cleanly. thanks, -chris