[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] shorten the x86_64 boot setup GDT to what the comment says

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>>> Andi Kleen <[email protected]> 09.11.06 14:13 >>>
>
>> Stephen Tweedie has written up a patch to fix the Xen side and will be
>> submitting that to those folks. But that doesn't excuse the GDT limit
>> being a magnitude too big.
>
>Added thanks

Once at this - why not set it to the *correct* value, just like i386 does,
and update the comment at once? Namely, why would you expect to
never run into the original problem again if there are still possible
selectors pointing into invalid, yet within limits parts of the GDT?

Jan
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