Re: [RFC PATCH 16/35] subarch support for interrupt and exception gates

[Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 01:09:49PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > +/*
> > + * This needs to use 'idt_table' rather than 'idt', and
> > + * thus use the _nonmapped_ version of the IDT, as the
> > + * Pentium F0 0F bugfix can have resulted in the mapped
> > + * IDT being write-protected.
> > + */
> > +void set_intr_gate(unsigned int n, void *addr)
> > +{
> > +	_set_gate(idt_table+n,14,0,addr,__KERNEL_CS);
> > +}
> 
> No need to duplicate the various set_*_gate functions into the subarchs.

Indeed, we'll change that.  Thanks.

    christian

> > +static void __init set_task_gate(unsigned int n, unsigned int gdt_entry)
> > +{
> > +	/* _set_gate(n, 5, 0, 0, (gdt_entry<<3)); */
> > +}
> 
> Looks weird, but can be handled in the low level function.
> 
> -Andi

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