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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>,
	Dan Arai <arai@vmware.com>, Anne Holler <anne@vmware.com>,
	Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>,
	Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>,
	Joshua LeVasseur <jtl@ira.uka.de>, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
	Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Jyothy Reddy <jreddy@vmware.com>,
	Jack Lo <jlo@vmware.com>, Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
	Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>,
	Wim Coekaerts <wim.coekaerts@oracle.com>,
	Leendert van Doorn <leendert@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 10/24] i386 Vmi descriptor changes
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:24:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603222124.03284.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603131806.k2DI6jlJ005700@zach-dev.vmware.com>


> -#define _set_gate(gate_addr,type,dpl,addr,seg) \
> -do { \
> -  int __d0, __d1; \
> -  __asm__ __volatile__ ("movw %%dx,%%ax\n\t" \
> -	"movw %4,%%dx\n\t" \
> -	"movl %%eax,%0\n\t" \
> -	"movl %%edx,%1" \
> -	:"=m" (*((long *) (gate_addr))), \
> -	 "=m" (*(1+(long *) (gate_addr))), "=&a" (__d0), "=&d" (__d1) \
> -	:"i" ((short) (0x8000+(dpl<<13)+(type<<8))), \
> -	 "3" ((char *) (addr)),"2" ((seg) << 16)); \
> -} while (0)


The ugly piece of code doesn't do anything priviledged. So why do you want
to move it?

-Andi


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-22 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-13 18:06 Zachary Amsden
2006-03-15 10:13 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-15 23:23 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-22 20:24 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-03-23  0:00   ` Zachary Amsden

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