From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 23 22:59:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 185DB16A401 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:59:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jkim@FreeBSD.org) Received: from anuket.mj.niksun.com (gwnew.niksun.com [65.115.46.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA0613C43E for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:59:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jkim@FreeBSD.org) Received: from niksun.com (anuket [10.70.0.5]) by anuket.mj.niksun.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0NMx2t6033991; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:59:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jkim@FreeBSD.org) From: Jung-uk Kim To: Tijl Coosemans Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:58:58 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <790a9fff0701211041j1176d00gd6dd75d0989cf4ec@mail.gmail.com> <200701231555.57521.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <200701232343.47316.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-Reply-To: <200701232343.47316.tijl@ulyssis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200701231758.59489.jkim@FreeBSD.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2480/Tue Jan 23 06:21:51 2007 on anuket.mj.niksun.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: linuxolator: tls_test results amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:59:04 -0000 On Tuesday 23 January 2007 05:43 pm, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Tuesday 23 January 2007 21:55, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 January 2007 03:13 pm, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > > > On Tuesday 23 January 2007 20:00, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > > > Second problem is MSR_KGSBASE is scrubbed by something during > > > > context switch, i.e., it becomes 0 some times. > > > > > > You mean: > > > > > > *kernel sets gsbase and switches back to user mode > > > *user program does things > > > > Yes. BTW, glibc seems to use movw instead of movl to load %gs. > > I don't know if that makes difference, though. It may have some > > effect when glibc is built with -mtls-direct-seg-refs flag. Need > > confirmation. > > I think there's no difference between movw and movl. The first > stores a 16 bit value in %gs, the second stores the lower 16 bits > of a 32 bit value. > > That flag is interesting, but I think it only relates to using %gs > after it has been set up for tls. > > > > *back in kernel mode, save gsbase into pcb and it appears to be > > > 0 now? > > > > Saved pcb_gsbase seems always correct. MSR_KGSBASE is not, which > > is supposedly swapped with MSR_GSBASE via swapgs. Maybe I am > > confused, or maybe my CPU is too old (it's C0 stepping and I know > > there are some segmentation issues with the revision) but that's > > what I see. I need more time for testing (or resting?). > > Ok, I understand why pcb_gsbase is always correct. It is never > written to except for cpu_set_user_tls, i386_set_gsbase and > set_thread_area. cpu_switch only reads from it to restore gsbase. > At least, that's what cpu_switch does in case of 64 bit programs, > not 32 bit it seems. Why is that? Why is there a jmp on line 186 in > sys/amd64/amd64/cpu_switch.S? I believe it was part of peter and davidxu's micro optimizations, though. I was experimenting with the cpu_switch.S but it might be hard to correct it without reverting the optimizations. :-( We can probably add another pcb_flag? Jung-uk Kim