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Date:      Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:38:57 -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.4.21.0109181638450.21589-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010918154213.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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it's fine by me....


On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, John Baldwin wrote:

> 
> On 18-Sep-01 Julian Elischer wrote:
> > this is already on my list of "non 1:1 fixes needed"
> 
> Heh, it was on my todo list for the past few months. :)  Andrew Reiter has
> expressed interest in doing this.  Do you object to him getting this done and
> freeing us both up for other things or do you wish to do it yourself?
> 
> > 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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> 
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> 
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