On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 2:18 PM H. Peter Anvin, Intel <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> > > Provide ptrace/regset access to the LDT, if one exists. This > interface provides both read and write access. The write code is > unified with modify_ldt(); the read code doesn't have enough > similarity so it has been kept made separate.
For this and for the GDT, you've chosen to use struct user_desc as your format instead of using a native hardware descriptor format. Any particular reason why? If nothing else, it will bloat core files a bit more than needed.
