On Monday 07 August 2006 09:50, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 07:40 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Monday 07 August 2006 06:45, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > Unfortunately, due to include cycles, we can't put these in > > > paravirt.h: we use a separate header for these. > > > > > > The implementation comes from Zach's [RFC, PATCH 10/24] i386 Vmi descriptor changes: > > > > > > Descriptor and trap table cleanups. Add cleanly written accessors for > > > IDT and GDT gates so the subarch may override them. Note that this > > > allows the hypervisor to transparently tweak the DPL of the descriptors > > > as well as the RPL of segments in those descriptors, with no unnecessary > > > kernel code modification. It also allows the hypervisor implementation > > > of the VMI to tweak the gates, allowing for custom exception frames or > > > extra layers of indirection above the guest fault / IRQ handlers. > > > > Nice cleanup. The old assembly mess was ripe to be killed for a long time. > > OK, here's that patch extracted out. Is there something wrong with your mailer? This one doesn't apply either: Applying patch patches/paravirt_desc.h-for-native patching file arch/i386/kernel/traps.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 1112. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- rejects in file arch/i386/kernel/traps.c missing header for unified diff at line 78 of patch can't find file to patch at input line 78 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- | * thus use the _nonmapped_ version of the IDT, as the -------------------------- No file to patch. Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored missing header for unified diff at line 88 of patch can't find file to patch at input line 88 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- | /* -------------------------- -Andi
