With paravirualization, hypervisors needs to handle the gdt,
that was right to this point only used at very early
inialization code. Hypervisors are commonly modules, so make
it an export
[ updates from v1
* make it an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.
Suggested by Arjan van de Ven
]
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
arch/x86_64/kernel/x8664_ksyms.c | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/x8664_ksyms.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/x8664_ksyms.c
index 77c25b3..2d3932d 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/x8664_ksyms.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/x8664_ksyms.c
@@ -60,3 +60,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(init_level4_pgt);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(load_gs_index);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(_proxy_pda);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
+extern unsigned long *cpu_gdt_descr;
+/* Virtualized guests may want to use it */
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_gdt_descr);
+#endif
--
1.4.4.2