Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed | Date | Fri, 7 Dec 2001 09:28:15 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Without turning this into a religous debate, is there any way to > find out what those messages really mean? When does one run into > an ldt allocation failure? What is ldt? I am not just trying to > solve this problem; I also want to understand what is going on > in the kernel.
Have a look in arch/i386/kernel/*.c. LDT is a descriptor table of segment registers. Its generally used by emulators to run things like win16 binaries and sometimes by threaded apps to do thread specific address spaces by giving each thread a different %fs or %gs segment register - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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