Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 10:37:26 PST From: Brian Smith <brians@mandor.dev.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USER_LDT limit Message-ID: <199601211837.KAA07162@mandor.dev.com>
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In message <199601211254.XAA10974@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >>I'm playing with Wine for FreeBSD 2.1, and found something odd. In >>/usr/src/sys/i386/i386/sys_machdep.c, I see that the descriptor maximum >>allowed in i386_set_ldt() is 512, which isn't strange. What is surprising >>is that it isn't a macro define. Is the number 512 magic? I'd like to > >I think it is just bad programming. The power of 2 size is good for >avoiding memory wastage. However, malloc() would better than kmem_malloc() >here since malloc() provides statistics. However^2, the amount of memory >is fairly large and it is per-process, so it should be pageable. Can >the vm system page user LDT's? It should be able to page LDT's. Descriptor tables are located in linear memory, which means that paging should work just fine. Paging tables are the ones which are harder to page in/out. As to what FreeBSD can do... I'm still reading source (and probably will be for a time). :-) Brian
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