Re: [patch] tls-2.5.31-D7

Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-12T15:41:27Z

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 07:24:25PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> the attached patch does this:
>
> - there are now 4 freely usable TLS entries, amongst them 0x40 for Wine
>
> - the 3 APM segments fit into the hole at the end of the kernel
> descriptor area exactly => no GDT size increase.
>
> - the ->private_tls code is gone - unconditional inline copies are more
> robust and faster as well.
>
> Plus the APM code needs Stephen's fix. I think this is the best approach
> we had so far. Any objections?

Patch looks good so far, but _please_ rename struct modify_ldt_ldt_s to
something more sensible. (yes, I know it existed before, but with this
patch the name is even more stupid than before)