Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 17:56:55 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thread-specific data and KSEs Message-ID: <20001121175655.T19895@prism.flugsvamp.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001121184250.29586A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001121184250.29586A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 06:51:59PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: > I'm going to start working on the user-side of the new threads > library. I need to be able to quickly get at the current KSE > (or perhaps KSEG). Can we define a register on each architecture > that should not be used by FreeBSD ABI compliant applications? > The register doesn't have to be 32 bits or larger, just large > enough to hold the maximum number of KSEs (or KSEGs). Um. On a i386 I'm not sure this will be practical, there aren't a whole lot of architecturally visible registers for use by the application. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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