On 9/24/05, Siddha, Suresh B <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]
>
> Fix the x86_64 TSS limit in TSS descriptor.
>
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[email protected]>
>
> --- linux-2.6.14-rc1/include/asm-x86_64/desc.h.orig 2005-09-12 20:12:09.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.14-rc1/include/asm-x86_64/desc.h 2005-09-23 12:50:58.210135128 -0700
> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ static inline void set_tss_desc(unsigned
> {
> set_tssldt_descriptor(&cpu_gdt_table[cpu][GDT_ENTRY_TSS], (unsigned long)addr,
> DESC_TSS,
> - sizeof(struct tss_struct) - 1);
> + IO_BITMAP_OFFSET + IO_BITMAP_BYTES + 7);
> }
>
[snip]
Is it just me, or would it be nice with a symbolic name for this "7" ?
For someone reading the code for the first time it seems to me that
it's non-obvious why the 7 is there, and why it's 7 exactely - a
define would make it clearer as I see it.
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