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

[Borislav Petkov]

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

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