Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Jul 2002 00:19:17 +0400 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [announce, patch] Thread-Local Storage (TLS) support for Linux,2.5.28 |
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Hello.
> > I thought, that gdt entry consulted only while > > loading its index into the segment register. > > > > So load_TLS_desc(next, cpu) must be called before > > loading next->fs,next->gs in __switch_to() ? > > hm, right. I'm wondering, why did the tls_test code still work? > > Ingo
Because that code reloads %fs before every time in {read,write}seg.
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