Re: [PATCH 18/25] [PATCH] turn priviled operations into macros inentry.S

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Aug 09 2007 - 01:23:12 EST


Steven Rostedt wrote:
> /*
> * x86 arch doesn't have an easy way to find out where
> * gs is located. So we need to read the MSR. But first
> * we need to save off the rcx, rax and rdx.
>
Why don't you store it in gs? movq %gs:my_gs_base, %rax?

J
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