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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Eric Lacombe <goretux@gmail.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [x86] do_arch_prctl
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:35:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpvme76p.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <493D7117.9050503@goop.org> (Jeremy Fitzhardinge's message of "Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:10:15 -0800")

Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> writes:
>>
>> The task_struct is also updated in sys_arch_prctl (ARCH_SET_FS and
>> ARCH_SET_GS), so not just on a context switch.
>> How the task structure could be out of date wrt thread.gs and thread.fs?
>> What could be a typical scenario that could induced gs or fs to be
>> modified and not thread.gs and thread.fs?
>>
>
> Not sure.  It could just be redundant.

The process has just changed fs/gs, but not done a context switch yet.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-08 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-07 23:02 [x86] do_arch_prctl Eric Lacombe
2008-12-08 19:10 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-12-08 20:35   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-11-18 17:35 [x86] do_arch_prctl - bug? Eric Lacombe
2008-11-19  9:23 ` Eric Lacombe
2008-11-19 21:06   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-11-19 23:35     ` [x86] do_arch_prctl Eric Lacombe
2008-11-20  0:07       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-11-20  0:22         ` Eric Lacombe
2008-11-24 12:24           ` Eric Lacombe
2008-11-24 18:22             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-11-24 19:28               ` Eric Lacombe

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