Messages in this thread | | | Subject | [PATCH 0/4] i386 GDT cleanups | From | Rusty Russell <> | Date | Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:30:36 +1100 |
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After lots of good feedback and contributions from the last series, this set of 4 simply cleans up GDT usage in i386. Percpu->pda is not included: it's really a separate problem (but made much simpler by these patches).
Patches are: no-gdt-pda-alloc.patch - Simplify by using per-cpu vars for gdt & pda, not allocating. This patch has been seen here before, and Jeremy Fitzhardinge acked it.
direct-percpu-gdt.patch - Simplify boot by switching straight from boot_gdt_table straight to per-cpu versions, rather than going to cpu_gdt_table then per-cpu gdt. This is a new approach after Ingo cautioned about removing boot_gdt_table.
cleanup-cpuinits.patch - Simple patch: we can now roll two identical functions together
cleanup-gdt-accessors.patch - Remove a level of indirection
Cheers, Rusty.
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