-/* If the Guest asks us to remove an entry from the GDT, we have to be careful.
- * If one of the segment registers is pointing at that entry the Switcher will
- * crash when it tries to reload the segment registers for the Guest.
- *
- * It doesn't make much sense for the Guest to try to remove its own code, data
- * or stack segments while they're in use: assume that's a Guest bug. If it's
- * one of the lesser segment registers using the removed entry, we simply set
- * that register to 0 (unusable). */
-static void check_segment_use(struct lguest *lg, unsigned int desc)
-{
- /* GDT entries are 8 bytes long, so we divide to get the index and
- * ignore the bottom bits. */
- if (lg->regs->gs / 8 == desc)
- lg->regs->gs = 0;
- if (lg->regs->fs / 8 == desc)
- lg->regs->fs = 0;
- if (lg->regs->es / 8 == desc)
- lg->regs->es = 0;
- if (lg->regs->ds / 8 == desc
- || lg->regs->cs / 8 == desc
- || lg->regs->ss / 8 == desc)
- kill_guest(lg, "Removed live GDT entry %u", desc);
-}
-/*:*/
-/*M:009 We wouldn't need to check for removal of in-use segments if we handled
- * faults in the Switcher. However, it's probably not a worthwhile
- * optimization. :*/
-
-/*H:610 Once the GDT has been changed, we look through the changed entries and
- * see if they're OK. If not, we'll call kill_guest() and the Guest will never
- * get to use the invalid entries. */
+/*H:610 Once the GDT has been changed, we fix the new entries up a little. We
+ * don't care if they're invalid: the worst that can happen is a General
+ * Protection Fault in the Switcher when it restores a Guest segment register
+ * which tries to use that entry. Then we kill the Guest for causing such a
+ * mess: the message will be "unhandled trap 256". */