Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:03:10 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> Cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1:N threading Message-ID: <20030404200310.A374E2A8A9@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10304031923290.4135-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > > > The patches are available: > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/libpthread.diffs > > > > > > FYI, since this is a new mailing list, the above changes > > > are meant to give libpthread M:N capability. > > > > > > I don't need testers; I have enough bugs that I know about > > > to fix. > > > > + __asm__("movl %%gs, %0" : "=r" (id)); > > + id >>= 3; > > + if (id - NLDT < 0) > > > > There is a problem here, NLDT is kernel private and changes depending on > > things like whether SMP is enabled or what the maximum number of cpus > > is. > > > > You're trying to find if its a local or global selector, right? > > What you really want is bit 2 which tells you which it is. > > > > #define ISLDT(s) ((s)&SEL_LDT) /* is it local or global */ > > #define SEL_LDT 4 /* local descriptor table */ > > OK, but if NLDT is kernel private, how do can I know > what LDTs I can use as local? Whoops. I misread NLDT as NGDT. Gah. We're doing some crufty stuff here. For starters, we're running userland on a LDT for %cs and %ds/es/ss/etc. We really should be using a GDT slot for those. Most of the other stuff there is for the a.out "lcall 7,0" instruction and for BSDI's version of the lcall stuff. The i386_[gs]et_ldt() syscalls really should have a way of reporting what is available for use. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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