H. Peter Anvin (Intel)
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The LKGS instruction atomically loads a segment descriptor into the %gs descriptor registers, *except* that %gs.base is unchanged, and the base is instead loaded into MSR_IA32_KERNEL_GS_BASE, which is exactly what we want this function to do. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin3.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112072032.35626-6-xin3.li@intel.com Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.