i386_set_ldt messages with today's world

[Daniel Eischen]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:

> On Monday 08 September 2003 00:17, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 14:13, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > > On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> 
> *SCHNIP*
> 
> > > > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info
> > >
> > > Something is using i386_set_ldt() static ldt allocations.  We
> > > added the warning message to detect usage of these allocations
> > > so they could be changed to dynamic allocations.
> > >
> > > Our threads libraries make use of LDTs on i386, so having
> > > other code also use (possibly) the same LDT would break
> > > things.
> > >
> > > > Only ode still exists which is:
> > > > 541  ??  S      0:15,50 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -auth
> > > > /var/run/xauth/A:0-2CitM
> > >
> > > What is ode?  Typo?  pid?
> > >
> > > I don't see how XFree86 can use i386_set_ldt().  It doesn't
> > > reference it on my box:
> > >
> > >   $ nm /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 | grep ldt
> > >   $
> >
> > XFree86 loads various modules from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules.  That said, I
> > could find nothing about ldts being used anywhere in the source
> > (grepping for LDT, sldt, and set_ldt).
> >
> > Perhaps the nvidia driver is being used?  That's the only thing I could
> > think of.
> 
> Yep, exactly that's the driver I'm using (GF4MX440-8)
> (I'm one of those without ANY problem with this card/driver (dualHead) btw.)

Is this binary only or source?  Either way, it needs to be changed
to use dynamic LDT allocations.

-- 
Dan Eischen