Very cool.
> - Make it work. It works UP on a test QEMU machine, but it doesn't
> yet work on real hardware, or SMP (though not working SMP on QEMU is
> more likely to be a QEMU problem). Not sure what the problem is yet;
> I'm hoping review will reveal something.
I bet qemu doesn't have a real descriptor cache unlike real CPUs.
So likely it is some disconnect between changing the backing GDT
and referencing the register. Reload %gs more aggressively?
Comparing with SimNow! (which should behave more like a real CPU)
might be also interesting.
> - Measure performance impact. The patch adds a segment register
> save/restore on entry/exit to the kernel. This expense should be
> offset by savings in using the PDA while in the kernel, but I haven't
> measured this yet. Space savings are already appealing though.
> - Modify more things to use the PDA. The more that uses it, the more
> the cost of the %gs save/restore is amortized. smp_processor_id and
> current are the obvious first choices, which are implemented in this
> series.
per cpu data would be the prime candidate. It is pretty simple.
> - Make it a config option? UP systems don't need to do any of this,
> other than having a single pre-allocated PDA. Unfortunately, it gets
> a bit messy to do this given the changes needed in handling %gs.
Please don't.
(weak point:)
- The stack protector code might work one day on i386 too.
-Andi
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