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| author | Thomas Gleixner | 2019-06-13 21:04:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner | 2019-06-22 11:38:57 +0200 |
| commit | 2c7b5ac5d5a93c4b0557293d06c6677f765081a6 (patch) | |
| tree | b14e2146688718f897155b275cd3a06464481e0b /drivers/acpi | |
| parent | x86/elf: Enumerate kernel FSGSBASE capability in AT_HWCAP2 (diff) | |
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Documentation/x86/64: Add documentation for GS/FS addressing mode
Explain how the GS/FS based addressing can be utilized in user space
applications along with the differences between the generic prctl() based
GS/FS base control and the FSGSBASE version available on newer CPUs.
Originally-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Bae, Chang Seok" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Cc: H . Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Shankar, Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1906132246310.1791@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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