In message <199904272349.taa28...@lor.watermarkgroup.com>, Luoqi Chen writes:
>I'm about to commit the SMP vmspace sharing patch (the %fs approach). All
>kernel modules will need to be recompiled. Recompilation is not neccessary
>for user land applications including ps, libkvm and friends.
>
>In this %fs approach, per-processor private pages are no longer mapped at
>identical virtual address for each cpu, instead a new segment descriptor (%fs)
>is setup to access per-cpu global variables like curproc. 

How is this accessed from C sources ?

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