Re: [PATCH v2 04/18] x86/gdt: Put per-cpu GDT remaps in ascending order

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Wed Nov 22 2017 - 10:27:15 EST


On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:05 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 08:43:59PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> We currently have CPU 0's GDT at the top of the GDT range and
>> higher-numbered CPUs at lower addreses. This happens because the
>> fixmap is upside down (index 0 is the top of the fixmap).
>>
>> Flip it so that GDTs are in ascending order by virtual address.
>> This will simplify a future patch that will generalize the GDT
>> remap to contain multiple pages.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Same reply as before:
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171121171643.jtwbfuvxwi6wecj3@xxxxxxx
>

Oops. Got it this time.