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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:50:44 +0900
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
CC: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen: setup percpu data pointers
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> We need to access percpu data fairly early, so set up the percpu
> registers as soon as possible.  We only need to load the appropriate
> segment register.  We already have a GDT, but its hard to change it
> early because we need to manipulate the pagetable to do so, and that
> hasn't been set up yet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

Committed 1-2 to #tj-percpu.  Thanks.

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tejun
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