Re: [PATCH 00/12] x86: Cleanup idt, gdt/ldt/tss structs

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Small detail, the syntactic form you chose:
>
> +       if (!cpu->arch.idt[num].p)
>
> is not very readable because it's not obvious at first sight that ".p" 
> intends to mean "present bit". If then idt[num].present would have 
> been the better choice - but it's even better to not do bitfields at 
> all but an idt_present(desc *) helper inline function.

There is, however, some benefit to use the field names that are in the 
official documentation, which include P.

	-hpa
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