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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 00:19:17 +0400
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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Hello.

> > I thought, that gdt entry consulted only while
> > loading its index into the segment register.
> >
> > 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?
> 
>         Ingo

Because that code reloads %fs before every time in {read,write}seg.

Oleg.
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