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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 22:14:07 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [announce, patch] Thread-Local Storage (TLS) support for Linux,
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On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > So load_TLS_desc(next, cpu) must be called before
> > loading next->fs,next->gs in __switch_to() ?
> 
> hm, right. I'm wondering, why did the tls_test code still work?

okay, the tls_test.c code worked only because the code didnt
context-switch after installing the TLS.

	Ingo

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