From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 05:59:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7233B16A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 05:59:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F69F43D1D for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 05:59:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.10/8.12.1) with ESMTP id i28DxVEK006126; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 08:59:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 08:59:31 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen X-Sender: eischen@pcnet5.pcnet.com To: toposoph-space@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <20040308135533.28705.qmail@web12405.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: %fs, %gs and ldt X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:59:32 -0000 On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 toposoph-space@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any version of ABI which specifies %fs, %gs and ldt usage on > ia32 for *nix? Or any FreeBSD specification? I see that Nvidia driver > uses them, that there is some compatibility with Linux, that FreeBSD > kernel did not save %gs on context switch recently and not does %gs > processing, etc., etc. But I can not find what is the general idea of > using those things or what is intend for future usage. > Thank you in advance for any info, See http://people.redhat.com/~drepper/tls.pdf We're working towards adopting that by 5.3-release. -- Dan Eischen