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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2006-07-30 06:03:20 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-07-31 16:28:38 -0400
commit2a8a3d5b65e86ec1dfef7d268c64a909eab94af7 (patch)
tree90d4f3e42233c4b9e0385a114b5e22ddda6b57e8 /arch/i386
parentc35a7261eaf0e57924e2c56c6d72dc44ee9f3634 (diff)
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c13
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)
189 memcpy((void *)reboot_code_buffer, relocate_new_kernel, 189 memcpy((void *)reboot_code_buffer, relocate_new_kernel,
190 relocate_new_kernel_size); 190 relocate_new_kernel_size);
191 191
192 /* The segment registers are funny things, they are 192 /* The segment registers are funny things, they have both a
193 * automatically loaded from a table, in memory wherever you 193 * visible and an invisible part. Whenever the visible part is
194 * set them to a specific selector, but this table is never 194 * set to a specific selector, the invisible part is loaded
195 * accessed again you set the segment to a different selector. 195 * with from a table in memory. At no other time is the
196 * 196 * descriptor table in memory accessed.
197 * The more common model is are caches where the behide
198 * the scenes work is done, but is also dropped at arbitrary
199 * times.
200 * 197 *
201 * I take advantage of this here by force loading the 198 * I take advantage of this here by force loading the
202 * segments, before I zap the gdt with an invalid value. 199 * segments, before I zap the gdt with an invalid value.