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SubjectRe: kernel: ldt allocation failed
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Followup to:  <20020206101231.X21624@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
By author: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Most sane architectures reserve a thread pointer register (%g6 resp. %g7 on
> sparc, tp on ia64, ppc will use %r2, alpha uses a fast pall call as thread
> "register", s390 uses user access register 0 (and s390x uar 0 and 1), etc.).
> On register starved ia32 there aren't too many spare registers, so %gs is
> used instead.
>

x86-64, interestingly, retains vestigial meaning of the %fs and %gs
registers (but no others) to use as a base pointer for this reason
alone.

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