Re: [patch 17/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: avoid having a bad selector in %gs during context switch
From: Andi Kleen <hidden>
Date: 2007-02-21 22:10:21
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From: Andi Kleen <hidden>
Date: 2007-02-21 22:10:21
Also in:
lkml, xen-devel
/* + * Temporary hack: zero gs now that we've saved it so that Xen + * doesn't try to reload the old value after changing the GDT + * during the context switch. This can go away once Xen has + * been taught to only reload %gs when it absolutely must. + */ + loadsegment(gs, 0);
Sorry, but i don't really want that unconditionally in the context switch. Adding a paravirt ops for it would be also ugly. Can Xen be fixed? -Andi