Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030299AbWHXXYI (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:24:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030405AbWHXXYI (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:24:08 -0400 Received: from mailout1.vmware.com ([65.113.40.130]:22444 "EHLO mailout1.vmware.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030299AbWHXXYG (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:24:06 -0400 Message-ID: <44EE3515.6000304@vmware.com> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:24:05 -0700 From: Zachary Amsden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove default_ldt, and simplify ldt-setting. References: <44EE308B.8000304@goop.org> <200608250115.36879.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200608250115.36879.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 536 Lines: 17 Andi Kleen wrote: > >> If there are no LDT entries, the LDT register is loaded >> with a NULL descriptor. >> > > x86-64 currently doesn't do this -- do you see an particular advantage > in it? > It's friendlier to virtual machines ;) And you can't get a zero sized LDT otherwise. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/