linux/arch/i386/mm
Rusty Russell 78be3706b2 [PATCH] i386: Allow a kernel not to be in ring 0
We allow for the fact that the guest kernel may not run in ring 0.  This
requires some abstraction in a few places when setting %cs or checking
privilege level (user vs kernel).

This is Chris' [RFC PATCH 15/33] move segment checks to subarch, except rather
than using #define USER_MODE_MASK which depends on a config option, we use
Zach's more flexible approach of assuming ring 3 == userspace.  I also used
"get_kernel_rpl()" over "get_kernel_cs()" because I think it reads better in
the code...

1) Remove the hardcoded 3 and introduce #define SEGMENT_RPL_MASK 3 2) Add a
get_kernel_rpl() macro, and don't assume it's zero.

And:

Clean up of patch for letting kernel run other than ring 0:

a. Add some comments about the SEGMENT_IS_*_CODE() macros.
b. Add a USER_RPL macro.  (Code was comparing a value to a mask
   in some places and to the magic number 3 in other places.)
c. Add macros for table indicator field and use them.
d. Change the entry.S tests for LDT stack segment to use the macros

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
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boot_ioremap.c [PATCH] i386 bootioremap / kexec fix 2006-09-25 17:38:35 -07:00
discontig.c [PATCH] i386: initialize end-of-memory variables as early as possible 2006-09-26 10:52:31 +02:00
extable.c [PATCH] i386: Allow a kernel not to be in ring 0 2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
fault.c [PATCH] i386: Allow a kernel not to be in ring 0 2006-09-26 10:52:39 +02:00
highmem.c [PATCH] i386: initialize end-of-memory variables as early as possible 2006-09-26 10:52:31 +02:00
hugetlbpage.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
init.c [PATCH] i386: Replace i386 open-coded cmdline parsing with 2006-09-26 10:52:32 +02:00
ioremap.c [PATCH] i386,amd64: ioremap.c __iomem annotations 2005-12-15 10:04:30 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] sparsemem memory model for i386 2005-06-23 09:45:05 -07:00
mmap.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
pageattr.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
pgtable.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial 2006-06-30 15:39:30 -07:00