Rusty Russell wrote:
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> Allocating PDA and GDT at boot is a pain.  Using simple per-cpu
> variables adds happiness (although we need the GDT page-aligned for
> Xen, see later).
>   

Not just Xen.  Apparently it leads to general goodness.

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> Finally, we can simply call it "cpu_gdt" rather than enduring the
> superfluous and unnecessarily redundant tautology of "cpu_gdt_table".
>   

Ah, well, at least it isn't excessive.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>

    J
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