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[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC, PATCH 5/24] i386 Vmi code patching
 
- To: Joshua LeVasseur <jtl@xxxxxxxxxx>
 
- From: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
 
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:11:46 -0800
 
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- Delivery-date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:40:40 +0000
 
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* Joshua LeVasseur (jtl@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> extern "C" void
> afterburn_cpu_write_gdt32_ext( burn_clobbers_frame_t *frame )
> {
>     get_cpu()->gdtr =  *(dtr_t *)frame->eax;
> }
What is this get_cpu()?  Accessing data structure that's avail. in ROM
and shared with hypervisor...could you elaborate a bit here?
thanks,
-chris
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