Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 04:33:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> Cc: marcel@xcllnt.net Subject: Re: KSD/TSD take 2 (was: KSE critical regions) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10307250433040.16440-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <009101c35284$6f943350$0701a8c0@tiger>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, David Xu wrote: > From: "Daniel Eischen" <eischen@vigrid.com> > > > > On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > > I'd like to try and get his implemented in this next > > > > round of changes. If you are going to add a system > > > > call, it's easy enough just to call the guts of it > > > > from kse_create(). > > > > > > FWIW: One trick would be to use an "invalid" value for one of the > > > parameters on the existing call to mux you into an alternate > > > implementsion (which could even take additional parameters, for > > > obvious reasons). > > > > Possibly... > > > > i386_set_ldt(int start_sel, union descriptor *descs, int num_sels); > > > > You could use start_sel = 0 and num_sels = 1 to have it automatically > > find the first one not already allocated. The function already > > returns the first selector allocated. > > > Not only allocate, there needs a deallocate call. You could pass in NULL for descs... -- Dan Eischen
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.GSO.4.10.10307250433040.16440-100000>