[PATCH] machine_kexec.c: Fix the description of segment handling

One of my original comments in machine_kexec was unclear
and this should fix it.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index 511abe52a94e861a2ad2051dd72e072a131db30c..6b1ae6ba76f0d15421f9aee87747a9192da1f4db 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -189,14 +189,11 @@ NORET_TYPE void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
        memcpy((void *)reboot_code_buffer, relocate_new_kernel,
                                                relocate_new_kernel_size);
 
-       /* The segment registers are funny things, they are
-        * automatically loaded from a table, in memory wherever you
-        * set them to a specific selector, but this table is never
-        * accessed again you set the segment to a different selector.
-        *
-        * The more common model is are caches where the behide
-        * the scenes work is done, but is also dropped at arbitrary
-        * times.
+       /* The segment registers are funny things, they have both a
+        * visible and an invisible part.  Whenever the visible part is
+        * set to a specific selector, the invisible part is loaded
+        * with from a table in memory.  At no other time is the
+        * descriptor table in memory accessed.
         *
         * I take advantage of this here by force loading the
         * segments, before I zap the gdt with an invalid value.

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index 83fb24a02821e0f67d6c14b5cff6b417da5e0221..106076b370fc8fa8a4cfc2faf610bf237b2dbde0 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -207,14 +207,11 @@ NORET_TYPE void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
        __flush_tlb();
 
 
-       /* The segment registers are funny things, they are
-        * automatically loaded from a table, in memory wherever you
-        * set them to a specific selector, but this table is never
-        * accessed again unless you set the segment to a different selector.
-        *
-        * The more common model are caches where the behide
-        * the scenes work is done, but is also dropped at arbitrary
-        * times.
+       /* The segment registers are funny things, they have both a
+        * visible and an invisible part.  Whenever the visible part is
+        * set to a specific selector, the invisible part is loaded
+        * with from a table in memory.  At no other time is the
+        * descriptor table in memory accessed.
         *
         * I take advantage of this here by force loading the
         * segments, before I zap the gdt with an invalid value.