On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 05:07:36PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > * 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. It would be much cleaner to use a per_cpu pointer then and just allocate it differently. -Andi