Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:38:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: JKH Project: x86: pcb_ext Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109181638450.21589-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010918154213.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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it's fine by me....
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 18-Sep-01 Julian Elischer wrote:
> > this is already on my list of "non 1:1 fixes needed"
>
> Heh, it was on my todo list for the past few months. :) Andrew Reiter has
> expressed interest in doing this. Do you object to him getting this done and
> freeing us both up for other things or do you wish to do it yourself?
>
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
> >
> >> Here's a Junior Kernel Hacker project for someone:
> >>
> >> - Move pcb_ext and pcb_ldt out of the pcb of struct thread and into
> >> struct mdproc; I.e., you probably want to do something like this:
> >> - Rename struct pcb_ext to struct proc_tss and struct pcb_ldt to
> >> struct proc_ldt. (Fixup pcb_ext member names to use a tss_
> >> prefix instead of ext_)
> >> - Have a struct mdproc as so:
> >>
> >> struct mdproc {
> >> struct proc_tss *md_tss;
> >> struct proc_ldt *md_ldt;
> >> }
> >>
> >> Prior to KSE this was just annoyance but wasn't an actual problem. With KSE
> >> threads are temporary, whereas the ldt and tss are per-process properties
> >> that
> >> need to stick around.
> >>
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