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authorGlauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>2007-10-19 20:35:03 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2007-10-19 20:35:03 +0200
commit9d1c6e7c86ddc366d67f0c5fa77be9b93710037a (patch)
tree2561f09ea7393c04634352808b6cba2195099b73 /arch/x86/kernel/setup64.c
parenti386: consolidate show_regs and show_registers for i386 (diff)
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x86: use descriptor's functions instead of inline assembly
This patch provides a new set of functions for managing the descriptor tables that can be used instead of putting the raw assembly in .c files. Remodeling of store_tr() suggested by Frederik Deweerdt. [ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ] Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/setup64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/setup64.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup64.c
index e11886e8d8ca..3558ac78c926 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup64.c
@@ -230,8 +230,8 @@ void __cpuinit cpu_init (void)
memcpy(cpu_gdt(cpu), cpu_gdt_table, GDT_SIZE);
cpu_gdt_descr[cpu].size = GDT_SIZE;
- asm volatile("lgdt %0" :: "m" (cpu_gdt_descr[cpu]));
- asm volatile("lidt %0" :: "m" (idt_descr));
+ load_gdt((const struct desc_ptr *)&cpu_gdt_descr[cpu]);
+ load_idt((const struct desc_ptr *)&idt_descr);
memset(me->thread.tls_array, 0, GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES * 8);
syscall_init();