"Yinghai Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 5/12/07, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Overwriting the GDT should be fine because we don't reload the segments, >> after we overwrite it. GDT entries are only read when we load segments. >> Interrupts are disabled so that should not cause a problem. >> >> Why do you think the current behaviour is a problem? > > just think if GDT should not be overwriten when we are still under > that GDT setting. > didn't have chance to test that in HDT or other debug device, when > setting breaking point after that GDT is overwriten.
It would be interesting to see if you could produce a failure using that gdt, I don't think you will be able to, even with a debugger. For data segments we never use that GDT, it is only for the code segment we use the GDT and that only to get us into 64bit mode. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
