Re: [PATCH] Remove default_ldt, and simplify ldt-setting.

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To: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove default_ldt, and simplify ldt-setting.
From: Zachary Amsden <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:24:05 -0700
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>, Andrew Morton <[email protected]>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>
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Andi Kleen wrote:

If there are no LDT entries, the LDT register is loaded
with a NULL descriptor.
x86-64 currently doesn't do this -- do you see an particular advantagein it?

It's friendlier to virtual machines ;) And you can't get a zero sizedLDT otherwise.

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