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

* Andi Kleen ([email protected]) 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.

Xen handles gdt differently (one page per cpu instead of per_cpu data).
So this is for handling that access cleanly.

thanks,
-chris
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