From: Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LDT allocated for cloned task!
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:43:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010321134310.A2463@netnation.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0103201745080.1701-100000@pau.intranet.ct> <9983m2$1l5$1@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <9983m2$1l5$1@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:23:14AM -0800
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:23:14AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It's harmless.
>
> It's really a warning that says: the mm that you allocated a new LDT for
> may have multiple users, and while the LDT is added to all of them, we
> don't guarantee _when_ the other users will actually see the LDT.
>
> It so happens that the other users are probably just something like
> "top" or similar, that increment the MM count to make sure that the MM
> doesn't go away while they get information about the process. And those
> users don't care about the LDT in the least.
xmms with the xmms-avi (or avi-xmms?) plugin reproduces the message each
and every time xmms starts up.
Simon-
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-21 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-20 16:45 LDT allocated for cloned task! Pau
2001-03-20 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-21 18:43 ` Simon Kirby [this message]
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2001-03-17 9:21 Pozsar Balazs
2001-02-13 17:42 Simon Kirby
2001-02-13 18:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-13 18:48 ` Simon Kirby
2001-02-14 14:06 ` Ville Herva
2001-02-14 14:12 ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-02-14 14:15 ` Ville Herva
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