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We'd like to replace all the magic numbers in various GDT descriptors with new, semantically meaningful, symbolic values. In order to be able to verify that the change doesn't cause any actual changes to the compiled binary code, I've split the change into two patches: - Part 1 (this commit): everything _but_ actually replacing the numbers - Part 2 (the following commit): _only_ replacing the numbers The reason we need this split for verification is that including new headers causes some spurious changes to the object files, mostly line number changes in the debug info but occasionally other subtle codegen changes. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231219151200.2878271-3-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
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.