Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:58:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: JKH Project: x86: pcb_ext Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109181558150.21589-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010918150213.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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this is already on my list of "non 1:1 fixes needed"
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
> Here's a Junior Kernel Hacker project for someone:
>
> - Move pcb_ext and pcb_ldt out of the pcb of struct thread and into
> struct mdproc; I.e., you probably want to do something like this:
> - Rename struct pcb_ext to struct proc_tss and struct pcb_ldt to
> struct proc_ldt. (Fixup pcb_ext member names to use a tss_
> prefix instead of ext_)
> - Have a struct mdproc as so:
>
> struct mdproc {
> struct proc_tss *md_tss;
> struct proc_ldt *md_ldt;
> }
>
> Prior to KSE this was just annoyance but wasn't an actual problem. With KSE
> threads are temporary, whereas the ldt and tss are per-process properties that
> need to stick around.
>
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