Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:26:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386_set_ldt messages with today's world Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309072125070.5069-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200309080140.42966@harrymail>
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On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > On Monday 08 September 2003 00:17, Eric Anholt wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 14:13, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > *SCHNIP* > > > > > 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. > > Yep, exactly that's the driver I'm using (GF4MX440-8) > (I'm one of those without ANY problem with this card/driver (dualHead) btw.) Is this binary only or source? Either way, it needs to be changed to use dynamic LDT allocations. -- Dan Eischen
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