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authorGlauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>2008-01-30 13:31:13 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-30 13:31:13 +0100
commit80fbb69a8d1268ef48dfe21da80e68cb01922f31 (patch)
tree6cc2d5d0fdc40eb53f74e36c5557fa24f89edce0 /arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
parent5af725026fe902bf81f1b90b1b9d9ee4b9e1eb6a (diff)
x86: introduce fill_ldt
This patch introduces fill_ldt(), which populates a ldt descriptor from a user_desc in once, instead of relying in the LDT_entry_a and LDT_entry_b macros 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 'arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
index 7eb0c8a45734..3e872b468533 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
@@ -223,8 +223,7 @@ static int write_ldt(void __user *ptr, unsigned long bytecount, int oldmode)
}
}
- ldt.a = LDT_entry_a(&ldt_info);
- ldt.b = LDT_entry_b(&ldt_info);
+ fill_ldt(&ldt, &ldt_info);
if (oldmode)
ldt.avl = 0;