Merge to Fedora kernel-2.6.18-1.2224_FC5 patched with stable patch-2.6.18.1-vs2.0...

[linux-2.6.git] / arch / x86_64 / kernel / machine_kexec.c

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index 25ac8a3..106076b 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ typedef NORET_TYPE void (*relocate_new_kernel_t)(unsigned long indirection_page,
                                        unsigned long start_address,
                                        unsigned long pgtable) ATTRIB_NORET;
 
-const extern unsigned char relocate_new_kernel[];
-const extern unsigned long relocate_new_kernel_size;
+extern const unsigned char relocate_new_kernel[];
+extern const unsigned long relocate_new_kernel_size;
 
 int machine_kexec_prepare(struct kimage *image)
 {
@@ -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.