Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen: setup percpu data pointers

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Jan 30 2009 - 03:51:39 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> We need to access percpu data fairly early, so set up the percpu
> registers as soon as possible. We only need to load the appropriate
> segment register. We already have a GDT, but its hard to change it
> early because we need to manipulate the pagetable to do so, and that
> hasn't been set up yet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>

Committed 1-2 to #tj-percpu. Thanks.

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tejun
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