On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 13:24 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> hm, i just noticed that in vmx_vcpu_run() KVM restores %fs quite late. 
> 
> This is a bit awkward under v2.6.21 x86 because there we use %fs for the 
> KERNEL_PDA area. Things like 'current' rely on it. So maybe we should 
> just do this unconditionally in assembly:
> 
>         movl $(__KERNEL_PDA), %edx;
>         movl %edx, %fs

Note that at some stage as Andi merges the pda->percpu conversion, this
will need to be replaced by __KERNEL_PERCPU.  Trivial change.

Cheers,
Rusty.


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