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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/desc_defs.h
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/desc_defs.h')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86/desc_defs.h25
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/desc_defs.h b/include/asm-x86/desc_defs.h
index 08900407009..de47eb0a23a 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,