In message <199904281625.maa05...@lor.watermarkgroup.com>, Luoqi Chen writes:

>> >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 ?
>> 
>curproc is now a macro defined as an inline asm function.

Not that I really miss far pointers, but right now we could use one...


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