[PATCH] machine_kexec.c: Fix the description of segment handling

One of my original comments in machine_kexec was unclear
and this should fix it.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 16 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.
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index 83fb24a02821..106076b370fc 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -207,14 +207,11 @@ NORET_TYPE void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
         __flush_tlb();
 
 
-        /* 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 unless you set the segment to a different selector.
-         *
-         * The more common model 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.