Rusty Russell wrote: > When I implemented the DECLARE_PER_CPU(var) macros, I was careful that > people couldn't use "var" in a non-percpu context, by prepending > percpu__. I never considered that this would allow them to overload > the same name for a per-cpu and a non-percpu variable. > > It is only one of many horrors in the i386 boot code, but let's rename > the non-perpcu cpu_gdt_descr to early_gdt_descr (not boot_gdt_descr, > that's something else...) > Finally, someone not just noticed, but fixed it! Thank you Rusty. Was on my todo list, but never bubbled up. Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach at vmware.com>