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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] shorten the x86_64 boot setup GDT to what the co


On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Alexander van Heukelum wrote:

> >  gdt_48:
> > -       .word   0x8000                          # gdt limit=2048,
> > +       .word   0x800                           # gdt limit=2048,
> >                                             #  256 GDT entries
> >
> >     .word   0, 0                            # gdt base (filled in later)
>
> The limit should be the offset of the last byte of the gdt table. So
> I think what was meant was really 0x7ff. Comparing this code with the
> i386-version, why does x86_64 need 256 entries here, while i386 is happy
> with just the code-segment and data-segment descriptors?
>


Hmm, Andi,

Should this be more like what is done in x86? Although this isn't a major
bug or anything, would it be cleaner. For example doing:

@@ -836,11 +836,15 @@ gdt:
        .word   0x9200                          # data read/write
        .word   0x00CF                          # granularity = 4096, 386
                                                #  (+5th nibble of limit)
+gdt_end:
+       .align  4
+
+       .word   0                               # alignment byte
 idt_48:
        .word   0                               # idt limit = 0
        .word   0, 0                            # idt base = 0L
 gdt_48:
-       .word   0x8000                          # gdt limit=2048,
+       .word   gdt_end - gdt - 1               # gdt limit=2048,
                                                #  256 GDT entries

        .word   0, 0                            # gdt base (filled in

instead?

If so, I can send you another patch that does this. Will need to test it
first.

-- Steve


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