[RFC PATCH] axe the store_gdt() pvops call. (v1)

2013-04-05 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Long long time ago (way back in October 2012), when I posted the patches that would make it possible to do ACPI S3 with Xen, Peter pointed out that: "excellent set of pvops calls that should be nukable to Kingdom Come. There is no reason, ever, to read the IDT and GDT from the kernel... the kernel

[RFC PATCH] axe the store_gdt() pvops call. (v1)

2013-04-05 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Long long time ago (way back in October 2012), when I posted the patches that would make it possible to do ACPI S3 with Xen, Peter pointed out that: excellent set of pvops calls that should be nukable to Kingdom Come. There is no reason, ever, to read the IDT and GDT from the kernel... the kernel