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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-10-08 09:14:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-10-08 09:15:00 +0200 |
| commit | 153db80f8cf74e8700cac96305b6c0b92918f17c (patch) | |
| tree | c2afb28e7b3f4fbf0aacd9edd39d7f895321ca0c /arch/x86/lguest/boot.c | |
| parent | 5fd03ddab7fdbc44bfb2d183a4531c26a8dbca5a (diff) | |
| parent | cb655d0f3d57c23db51b981648e452988c0223f9 (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc7' into core/memblock
Merge reason: Update from -rc3 to -rc7.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lguest/boot.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/lguest/boot.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c index 9257510b4836..9d5f55848455 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c +++ b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c @@ -324,9 +324,8 @@ static void lguest_load_gdt(const struct desc_ptr *desc) } /* - * For a single GDT entry which changes, we do the lazy thing: alter our GDT, - * then tell the Host to reload the entire thing. This operation is so rare - * that this naive implementation is reasonable. + * For a single GDT entry which changes, we simply change our copy and + * then tell the host about it. */ static void lguest_write_gdt_entry(struct desc_struct *dt, int entrynum, const void *desc, int type) @@ -338,9 +337,13 @@ static void lguest_write_gdt_entry(struct desc_struct *dt, int entrynum, } /* - * OK, I lied. There are three "thread local storage" GDT entries which change + * There are three "thread local storage" GDT entries which change * on every context switch (these three entries are how glibc implements - * __thread variables). So we have a hypercall specifically for this case. + * __thread variables). As an optimization, we have a hypercall + * specifically for this case. + * + * Wouldn't it be nicer to have a general LOAD_GDT_ENTRIES hypercall + * which took a range of entries? */ static void lguest_load_tls(struct thread_struct *t, unsigned int cpu) { |