[PATCH 2/6] export cpu_gdt_descr

From: Glauber de Oliveira Costa
Date: Wed Dec 12 2007 - 10:46:15 EST


With paravirualization, hypervisors needs to handle the gdt,
that was right to this point only used at very early
inialization code. Hypervisors (lguest being the current case)
are commonly modules, so make it an export

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c
index e28b533..a66e9c1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
+#include <asm/desc.h>

EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread);

@@ -53,3 +54,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(init_level4_pgt);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(load_gs_index);

EXPORT_SYMBOL(_proxy_pda);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
+/* Virtualized guests may want to use it */
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_gdt_descr);
+#endif
--
1.4.4.2

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