Re: Assignment of GDT entries

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Zachary Amsden wrote:
I believe 9,10,11 are reserved for future users like yourself or expanded TLS segments. I think a bank of 3 TLS segments in the GDT is working fine now (does NPTL even use more than one?).

Nope. And there's a comment that wine uses one more. I think the third is completely unused.

Does this mean that "reserved" is actually synonymous with "unused" in asm/segment.h?

Otherwise line 1 would be ideal for putting 3 TLS, kernel+user code+data and PDA into, thereby making 99.999% of GDT descriptor uses come from one cache line.

That change is visible to userspace, unfortunately.

Don't think it matters much. 32-bit processes on x86-64 seem perfectly happy with the TLS being in a different place. I think the ABI is defined in terms of "use the selector for the entry that set_thread_area/clone returns", and so is not a constant. But I agree it would be better not to.

Hm, moving user cs/ds would be pretty visible too... Hm, and it would have a greater chance of breaking stuff if they changed, compared to moving the TLS...

So is there any reason for "kernel entries start at 12"? If there's no reason for it, then we can pack everything useful into 1-5.

But anyway, what breaks if I put the PDA in 11?

Nothing.

OK then.

   J
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