On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:49:40 -0600 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
one typo (below):
> How does this look for making that comment readable?
>
> Eric
>
>
> diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> index f73d737..7a344b6 100644
> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> @@ -189,14 +189,11 @@ NORET_TYPE void machine_kexec(struct kim
> memcpy((void *)reboot_code_buffer, relocate_new_kernel,
> relocate_new_kernel_size);
>
> - /* The segment registers are funny things, they are
> - * automatically loaded from a table, in memory wherever you
> - * set them to a specific selector, but this table is never
> - * accessed again you set the segment to a different selector.
> - *
> - * The more common model is are caches where the behide
> - * the scenes work is done, but is also dropped at arbitrary
> - * times.
> + /* The segment registers are funny things, they have both a
> + * visible and an invisible part. Whenver the visible part is
* Whenever
> + * set to a specific selector, the invisible part is loaded
> + * with from a table in memory. At no other time is the
> + * descriptor table in memory accessed.
> *
> * I take advantage of this here by force loading the
> * segments, before I zap the gdt with an invalid value.
Much better, thanks.
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~Randy
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