Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 15:17:50 -0700 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: deischen@freebsd.org Cc: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> Subject: Re: i386_set_ldt messages with today's world Message-ID: <1062973069.909.7.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309071704300.26424-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309071704300.26424-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
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On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 14:13, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have no idea what it means, but since today's world I get the following > > messages after starting x: > > > > Warning: pid 541 used static ldt allocation. > > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info > > Warning: pid 547 used static ldt allocation. > > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info > > Warning: pid 548 used static ldt allocation. > > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info > > Warning: pid 567 used static ldt allocation. > > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info > > Warning: pid 568 used static ldt allocation. > > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info > > Warning: pid 569 used static ldt allocation. > > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info > > Warning: pid 570 used static ldt allocation. > > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info > > Warning: pid 573 used static ldt allocation. > > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info > > Warning: pid 572 used static ldt allocation. > > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info > > Warning: pid 577 used static ldt allocation. > > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info > > Something is using i386_set_ldt() static ldt allocations. We > added the warning message to detect usage of these allocations > so they could be changed to dynamic allocations. > > Our threads libraries make use of LDTs on i386, so having > other code also use (possibly) the same LDT would break > things. > > > Only ode still exists which is: > > 541 ?? S 0:15,50 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-2CitM > > What is ode? Typo? pid? > > I don't see how XFree86 can use i386_set_ldt(). It doesn't > reference it on my box: > > $ nm /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 | grep ldt > $ XFree86 loads various modules from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules. That said, I could find nothing about ldts being used anywhere in the source (grepping for LDT, sldt, and set_ldt). Perhaps the nvidia driver is being used? That's the only thing I could think of. -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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