Re: [PATCH 8/14] i386 / Add a per cpu gdt accessor

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To: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/14] i386 / Add a per cpu gdt accessor
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:49:49 -0700
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Andi Kleen wrote:

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:56:40PM -0700, [email protected] 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.


He wants accessors so he can override them in Xen.

	-hpa

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