> memcpy(cpu_gdt_table[cpu], cpu_gdt_table[0], GDT_SIZE);
> - cpu_gdt_descr[cpu].size = GDT_SIZE;
> + cpu_gdt_descr[cpu].size = GDT_SIZE - 1;
> cpu_gdt_descr[cpu].address = (unsigned long)cpu_gdt_table[cpu];
indeed, good eyes!
i'm wondering whether this could have caused any problems - since the
limit was not a proper multiple of 8 minus 1, no selector value could have
caused a descriptor to be loaded from the invalid byte.
Ingo
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