Panic on -CURRENT after LDT changes
Tor Egge
Tor.Egge at cvsup.no.freebsd.org
Tue May 29 00:55:15 UTC 2007
> Tor,
> I've updated the patch. Can you please redownload it and test/review:
> http://users.gufi.org/~rookie/works/patches/schedlock/ldt2.diff
Looking at the diff between the old ldt2.diff and the new ldt2.diff,
the change seems reasonable.
i386_ldt_grow() has another problem if multiple processes share a user LDT.
The old ldt is freed while still referenced by the CPUs. This might cause
problems, e.g. with threaded linux binaries.
- Tor Egge
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