Re: [PATCH 18/25] [PATCH] turn priviled operations into macros in entry.S

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 	/*
> 	 * x86 arch doesn't have an easy way to find out where
> 	 * gs is located. So we need to read the MSR. But first
> 	 * we need to save off the rcx, rax and rdx.
>   
Why don't you store it in gs?  movq %gs:my_gs_base, %rax?

    J
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