Re: [discuss] [patch] x86_64: align and pad x86_64 GDT on pageboundary

From: Rohit Seth
Date: Thu Dec 08 2005 - 18:38:04 EST


On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 00:26 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Well if the Xen people have such requirements they can submit
> separate patches. Currently they don't seem to be interested
> at all in submitting patches to mainline, so we must work
> with the VM hackers who are interested in this (scalex86, VMware)
> And AFAIK they only care about not having false sharing in there.
>


Agreed.

Though do we need to have full page allocated for each gdt (256 bytes)
then? ...possibly use kmalloc.

-rohit

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