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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 07:24:25PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> the attached patch does this:
> 
>  - there are now 4 freely usable TLS entries, amongst them 0x40 for Wine
> 
>  - the 3 APM segments fit into the hole at the end of the kernel
>    descriptor area exactly => no GDT size increase.
> 
>  - the ->private_tls code is gone - unconditional inline copies are more
>    robust and faster as well.
> 
> Plus the APM code needs Stephen's fix. I think this is the best approach
> we had so far. Any objections?

Patch looks good so far, but _please_ rename struct modify_ldt_ldt_s to
something more sensible. (yes, I know it existed before, but with this
patch the name is even more stupid than before)

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