Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The gdt descriptor alignment really shouldn't matter, but that bogus
> GDT _size_ thing in the descriptor might do it.
Indeed.
> Right now it's set to be 0x8000, which is not a legal GDT size (it
> should be of the form n*8-1), and is nonsensical anyway (the comment
> says 2048 entries, but the fact is, we don't _have_ 2048 entries in
> there).
In my source tree pulled about at the end of last night here (10pm in
California) it is still GDT_ENTRIES*8-1. Time to pull :-)
Gabriel.
P.S: since the first entry is not used, the first 8 bytes could be filled
with
1: .word 0
gdt_table_desc: .word GDT_ENTRIES*8-1
.long 1b
to eliminate the array of GDT descriptors and save a few bytes.
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