From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Nov 28 22:14:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E6FA1527F for ; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 22:14:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA10034 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 07:14:34 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id HAA61826 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 07:14:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from io.yi.org (24.66.174.118.bc.wave.home.com [24.66.174.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E4F11527F for ; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 22:14:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jburkhol@home.com) Received: from io.yi.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by io.yi.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 556731FD0 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 22:14:24 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: thread references Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 22:14:24 -0800 From: Jake Burkholder Message-Id: <19991129061424.556731FD0@io.yi.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you can get to a solaris box, I think the following man pages are worth reading: _lwp_create(2) _lwp_cond_signal(2) _lwp_cond_wait(2) _lwp_continue(2) _lwp_makecontext(2) _lwp_wait(2) getcontext(2) makecontext(3c) ucontext(5) as well as /usr/include/sys/lwp.h I'd also like to point everyone to pages 350 through 352 of Volume 2 of the Intel Architecture Software Developer's manual, which describe in detail exactly what happens on entry to the kernel. The psuedo-code for the int instruction is quite long, inter-priviledge-level-interrupt is us. http://developer.intel.com/design/pentiumIII/xeon/manuals/ Thank you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message