Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752645AbaDWI5d (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2014 04:57:33 -0400 Received: from mail.codeweavers.com ([216.251.189.131]:45078 "EHLO mail.codeweavers.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751314AbaDWI5a (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2014 04:57:30 -0400 From: Alexandre Julliard To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Lutomirski , Borislav Petkov , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , Alexander van Heukelum , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Boris Ostrovsky , Arjan van de Ven , Brian Gerst , Andi Kleen , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64: espfix for 64-bit mode *PROTOTYPE* References: <5355A9E9.9070102@zytor.com> <1dbe8155-58da-45c2-9dc0-d9f4b5a6e643@email.android.com> <20140422112312.GB15882@pd.tnic> <20140422144659.GF15882@pd.tnic> <53569467.1030809@zytor.com> <53575C84.6080801@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:57:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: <53575C84.6080801@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Tue, 22 Apr 2014 23:24:04 -0700") Message-ID: <87lhuw779x.fsf@wine.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: 0.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > Does anyone have any idea if there is a real use case for non-16-bit > LDT segments used as the stack segment? Does Wine use anything like > that? Wine uses them for DPMI support, though that would only get used when vm86 mode is available. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/