Re: [PATCH] x86: make sure IDT is page aligned

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/12/2013 11:30 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
>  
> -	.word 0				# 32-bit align idt_desc.address
> +	.word PAGE_SIZE			# page align idt_desc.address
> 

... and this is totally confused.  This didn't change alignment one
iota, it only put the value 4096 into the padding.

	-hpa

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