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

To: "Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>,"Andi Kleen" <ak@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] shorten the x86_64 boot setup GDT to what the comment says
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:31:05 +0100
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>>> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> 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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