Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:22:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:22:33 -0500 Received: from hq.fsmlabs.com ([209.155.42.197]:49420 "EHLO hq.fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:22:19 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:21:44 -0700 From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com To: Jakub Jelinek Cc: Denis Vlasenko , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed Message-ID: <20020206132144.A29162@hq.fsmlabs.com> In-Reply-To: <200202061258.g16CwGt31197@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <200202061402.g16E2Nt32223@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20020206101231.X21624@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20020206101231.X21624@devserv.devel.redhat.com>; from jakub@redhat.com on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:12:31AM -0500 Organization: FSM Labs Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:12:31AM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > Most sane architectures reserve a thread pointer register (%g6 resp. %g7 on > sparc, tp on ia64, ppc will use %r2, alpha uses a fast pall call as thread > "register", s390 uses user access register 0 (and s390x uar 0 and 1), etc.). > On register starved ia32 there aren't too many spare registers, so %gs is > used instead. So the x86 designers have provided all sorts of shadow registers and extensive high speed caches and the glibc developers deliberately choose to defeat all that expensive optimization? - 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/