Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:44:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:44:14 -0500 Received: from 069up090.chartermi.net ([24.247.69.90]:52864 "EHLO oof.netnation.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:43:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:43:10 -0500 From: Simon Kirby To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LDT allocated for cloned task! Message-ID: <20010321134310.A2463@netnation.com> In-Reply-To: <9983m2$1l5$1@penguin.transmeta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <9983m2$1l5$1@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:23:14AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:23:14AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It's harmless. > > It's really a warning that says: the mm that you allocated a new LDT for > may have multiple users, and while the LDT is added to all of them, we > don't guarantee _when_ the other users will actually see the LDT. > > It so happens that the other users are probably just something like > "top" or similar, that increment the MM count to make sure that the MM > doesn't go away while they get information about the process. And those > users don't care about the LDT in the least. xmms with the xmms-avi (or avi-xmms?) plugin reproduces the message each and every time xmms starts up. Simon- [ Stormix Technologies Inc. ][ NetNation Communications Inc. ] [ sim@stormix.com ][ sim@netnation.com ] [ Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employers. ] - 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/