From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] kill default_ldt
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:01:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E59E05.4070804@goop.org> (raw)
The default LDT is completely unused now that iBCS is no longer
supported, so get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
===================================================================
diff -r 121e0e54cca8 arch/i386/kernel/ldt.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/ldt.c Fri Aug 18 11:36:24 2006 +0100
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/ldt.c Fri Aug 18 11:57:04 2006 +0100
@@ -160,16 +160,14 @@ static int read_default_ldt(void __user
{
int err;
unsigned long size;
- void *address;
err = 0;
- address = &default_ldt[0];
size = 5*sizeof(struct desc_struct);
if (size > bytecount)
size = bytecount;
err = size;
- if (copy_to_user(ptr, address, size))
+ if (clear_user(ptr, size))
err = -EFAULT;
return err;
diff -r 121e0e54cca8 arch/i386/kernel/traps.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c Fri Aug 18 11:36:24 2006 +0100
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c Fri Aug 18 11:36:24 2006 +0100
@@ -58,9 +58,6 @@
#include "mach_traps.h"
asmlinkage int system_call(void);
-
-struct desc_struct default_ldt[] = { { 0, 0 }, { 0, 0 }, { 0, 0 },
- { 0, 0 }, { 0, 0 } };
/* Do we ignore FPU interrupts ? */
char ignore_fpu_irq = 0;
diff -r 121e0e54cca8 include/asm-i386/desc.h
--- a/include/asm-i386/desc.h Fri Aug 18 11:36:24 2006 +0100
+++ b/include/asm-i386/desc.h Fri Aug 18 11:56:31 2006 +0100
@@ -33,11 +33,6 @@ static inline struct desc_struct *get_cp
return (struct desc_struct *)per_cpu(cpu_gdt_descr, cpu).address;
}
-/*
- * This is the ldt that every process will get unless we need
- * something other than this.
- */
-extern struct desc_struct default_ldt[];
extern struct desc_struct idt_table[];
extern void set_intr_gate(unsigned int irq, void * addr);
@@ -159,7 +154,7 @@ static inline void clear_LDT(void)
{
int cpu = get_cpu();
- set_ldt_desc(cpu, &default_ldt[0], 5);
+ set_ldt_desc(cpu, NULL, 0);
load_LDT_desc();
put_cpu();
}
@@ -172,10 +167,8 @@ static inline void load_LDT_nolock(mm_co
void *segments = pc->ldt;
int count = pc->size;
- if (likely(!count)) {
- segments = &default_ldt[0];
- count = 5;
- }
+ if (likely(!count))
+ segments = NULL;
set_ldt_desc(cpu, segments, count);
load_LDT_desc();
next reply other threads:[~2006-08-18 11:01 UTC|newest]
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2006-08-18 11:01 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2006-08-18 12:16 ` Andi Kleen
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