Hi All,
AFAIK , linux kernel uses just a single TSS per cpu.right?
It just copies the corresponding values to the fields in the TSS during a context switch, right?
while going through the code in arch/i386/kernel/traps.c i found a function
fastcall void __kprobes do_general_protection( ... )
It does some bitmap magic to initialise the TSS for each CPU in the system.
What actually is this magic ? :)
Moreover what does __kprobes signify here?
Last one, where does linux first initialises this per cpu TSS?
TIA
pradeep
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Pradeep Singh
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