Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:11:46 -0800
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Joshua LeVasseur <jtl@ira.uka.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 5/24] i386 Vmi code patching
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* Joshua LeVasseur (jtl@ira.uka.de) wrote:
> extern "C" void
> afterburn_cpu_write_gdt32_ext( burn_clobbers_frame_t *frame )
> {
>     get_cpu()->gdtr =  *(dtr_t *)frame->eax;
> }

What is this get_cpu()?  Accessing data structure that's avail. in ROM
and shared with hypervisor...could you elaborate a bit here?

thanks,
-chris
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