KSD/TSD take 2 (was: KSE critical regions)

[Julian Elischer]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, David Xu wrote:

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> Dan has two fields in kse_mailbox:
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> void      *km_ksdaddr;    /* KSE specific data address */
> uint32_t  km_ksdsize;     /* KSE specific data size */
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> I think it is used to tell kernel to map start address 
> of libkse's kse mailbox like above lib_kse_mailbox.
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> > presently it requires special code to do the segments..
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> Did you make some progresses in this area ?

It requires thatI rewrite the LDT code in WINE
because wine just clobbers the LDT without looking to see if anyone else
is using entries..


My aim was to have a call i386_set_ldt that takes an addr and length
and returns teh value that needs to be set into a segment register
in order to access that segment (or error if no more segments
available). Wine could use it from userland and kse_create could use it
from inside the kernel to set up a segment that covers the mailbox.
kse_create would set it into the %gs register of the newly created kse.

having it done by by the library with the 'shotgun' code
is probably good enough for now



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