Re: Boot failure in 2.5.31 BK with new TLS patch

[Gabriel Paubert]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > The gdt descriptor alignment really shouldn't matter, but that bogus
 > GDT _size_ thing in the descriptor might do it.

Indeed.

 > Right now it's set to be 0x8000, which is not a legal GDT size (it
 > should be of the form n*8-1), and is nonsensical anyway (the comment
 > says 2048 entries, but the fact is, we don't _have_ 2048 entries in
 > there).

In my source tree pulled about at the end of last night here (10pm in 
California) it is still GDT_ENTRIES*8-1. Time to pull :-)

	Gabriel.

P.S: since the first entry is not used, the first 8 bytes could be filled
with
	1:	.word 0
gdt_table_desc: .word GDT_ENTRIES*8-1
		.long 1b

to eliminate the array of GDT descriptors and save a few bytes.