Commit 283fa3b6 authored by H. Peter Anvin (Intel)'s avatar H. Peter Anvin (Intel) Committed by Thomas Gleixner

x86: Add native_[ig]dt_invalidate()

In some places, the native forms of descriptor table invalidation is
required. Rather than open-coding them, add explicitly native functions to
invalidate the GDT and IDT.
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210519212154.511983-6-hpa@zytor.com
parent 8ec9069a
......@@ -224,6 +224,26 @@ static inline void store_idt(struct desc_ptr *dtr)
asm volatile("sidt %0":"=m" (*dtr));
}
static inline void native_gdt_invalidate(void)
{
const struct desc_ptr invalid_gdt = {
.address = 0,
.size = 0
};
native_load_gdt(&invalid_gdt);
}
static inline void native_idt_invalidate(void)
{
const struct desc_ptr invalid_idt = {
.address = 0,
.size = 0
};
native_load_idt(&invalid_idt);
}
/*
* The LTR instruction marks the TSS GDT entry as busy. On 64-bit, the GDT is
* a read-only remapping. To prevent a page fault, the GDT is switched to the
......
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