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Subject: Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed
To: vkire@pixar.com (Kiril Vidimce)
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 09:28:15 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), dmaas@dcine.com (Dan Maas),
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> Without turning this into a religous debate, is there any way to
> find out what those messages really mean? When does one run into
> an ldt allocation failure? What is ldt? I am not just trying to
> solve this problem; I also want to understand what is going on
> in the kernel.

Have a look in arch/i386/kernel/*.c. LDT is a descriptor table of segment
registers. Its generally used by emulators to run things like win16 binaries
and sometimes by threaded apps to do thread specific address spaces by
giving each thread a different %fs or %gs segment register
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