Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:37:31 -0400
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc: Simon Barner <barner@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: {get,set}_fsbase, {get,set}_gsbase and Valgrind
Message-ID: <200509151137.32110.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050915104839.GC1098@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
References: <20050915104839.GC1098@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
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On Thursday 15 September 2005 06:48 am, Simon Barner wrote: > Doug, > hackers, > > a user of the valgrind port reported that it crashed due to an unhandled > sysarch call (ports/86007). > > I found out, that this was because of the get_fsbase, set_fsbase, > get_gsbase and set_gsbase calls, which were introduced in FreeBSD 6. > > I'd be happy if somebody could review my attached patch. It's quite > possible that it does not make sense at all since I created it by > adopting the code for the other cases without having a real clue about > what I was doing :-/ > > Also, since I could not find any documentation for these calls, it would > be very nice to know what they are good for, and if programs like > valgrind have to take special care of them. > > Best regards, > Simon Your best bet is probably to mail the patch in a followup to the PR so that it doesn't get lost. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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