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authorGlauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>2008-01-30 13:31:11 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-30 13:31:11 +0100
commit6842ef0e85a9cc1295f3ef933a230f863b01eb0f (patch)
treedfee4feb74f15ea3819b57848e59fb29ebb10750 /include/asm-x86
parent746ef0cd0c7190d570c65b8e39a4ac67550ae43a (diff)
x86: unify desc_struct
This patch aims to make the access of struct desc_struct variables equal across architectures. In this patch, I unify the i386 and x86_64 versions under an anonymous union, keeping the way they are accessed untouched (a and b for 32-bit code, individual bit-fields for 64-bit). This solution is not beautiful, but will allow us to integrate common code that differed by the way descriptors were used. This is to be viewed incrementally. There's simply too much code to be fixed at once. In the future, goal is to set up in a single way of acessing the desc_struct fields. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-x86')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86/desc_defs.h25
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86/lguest.h4
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86/processor_32.h5
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/desc_defs.h b/include/asm-x86/desc_defs.h
index 089004070099..de47eb0a23aa 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/desc_defs.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/desc_defs.h
@@ -11,17 +11,26 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
+/*
+ * FIXME: Acessing the desc_struct through its fields is more elegant,
+ * and should be the one valid thing to do. However, a lot of open code
+ * still touches the a and b acessors, and doing this allow us to do it
+ * incrementally. We keep the signature as a struct, rather than an union,
+ * so we can get rid of it transparently in the future -- glommer
+ */
// 8 byte segment descriptor
struct desc_struct {
- u16 limit0;
- u16 base0;
- unsigned base1 : 8, type : 4, s : 1, dpl : 2, p : 1;
- unsigned limit : 4, avl : 1, l : 1, d : 1, g : 1, base2 : 8;
-} __attribute__((packed));
+ union {
+ struct { unsigned int a, b; };
+ struct {
+ u16 limit0;
+ u16 base0;
+ unsigned base1: 8, type: 4, s: 1, dpl: 2, p: 1;
+ unsigned limit: 4, avl: 1, l: 1, d: 1, g: 1, base2: 8;
+ };
-struct n_desc_struct {
- unsigned int a,b;
-};
+ };
+} __attribute__((packed));
enum {
GATE_INTERRUPT = 0xE,
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/lguest.h b/include/asm-x86/lguest.h
index ccd338460811..17c908c0ef1c 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/lguest.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/lguest.h
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ static inline void lguest_set_ts(void)
}
/* Full 4G segment descriptors, suitable for CS and DS. */
-#define FULL_EXEC_SEGMENT ((struct desc_struct){0x0000ffff, 0x00cf9b00})
-#define FULL_SEGMENT ((struct desc_struct){0x0000ffff, 0x00cf9300})
+#define FULL_EXEC_SEGMENT ((struct desc_struct){ { {0x0000ffff, 0x00cf9b00} } })
+#define FULL_SEGMENT ((struct desc_struct){ { {0x0000ffff, 0x00cf9300} } })
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/processor_32.h b/include/asm-x86/processor_32.h
index 9c0ab7f26bd9..bc48ad64de47 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/processor_32.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/processor_32.h
@@ -20,14 +20,11 @@
#include <linux/cpumask.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <asm/processor-flags.h>
+#include <asm/desc_defs.h>
/* flag for disabling the tsc */
extern int tsc_disable;
-struct desc_struct {
- unsigned long a,b;
-};
-
static inline int desc_empty(const void *ptr)
{
const u32 *desc = ptr;