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| author |   James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2006-08-27 21:59:59 -0500 |
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| committer | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2006-08-27 21:59:59 -0500 |
| commit | 8ce7a9c159c8c4eb480f0a65c6af753dbf9a1a70 (patch) | |
| tree | be59573c0af3617d0cd8a7d61f0ed119e58b1156 /arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c | |
| parent | [SCSI] BusLogic gcc 4.1 warning fixes (diff) | |
| parent | [PATCH] Fix tty layer DoS and comment relevant code (diff) | |
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Merge ../linux-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c index 511abe52a94e..6b1ae6ba76f0 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c @@ -189,14 +189,11 @@ NORET_TYPE void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image) memcpy((void *)reboot_code_buffer, relocate_new_kernel, relocate_new_kernel_size); - /* The segment registers are funny things, they are - * automatically loaded from a table, in memory wherever you - * set them to a specific selector, but this table is never - * accessed again you set the segment to a different selector. - * - * The more common model is are caches where the behide - * the scenes work is done, but is also dropped at arbitrary - * times. + /* The segment registers are funny things, they have both a + * visible and an invisible part. Whenever the visible part is + * set to a specific selector, the invisible part is loaded + * with from a table in memory. At no other time is the + * descriptor table in memory accessed. * * I take advantage of this here by force loading the * segments, before I zap the gdt with an invalid value. |