Hi, I have a "small" amd64 program that makes havy use of LDT (%GS to be more specific). The trouble is, in a multithreaded environment, the selector value gets lost (or reset?).
The code *always* segfaults with this stack: 4 LWP 100126 0x0000000800dec07c in select () from /lib/libc.so.6 * 3 Thread 0x517000 (runnable) 0x000000080055cfbc in ?? () 2 Thread 0x517400 (LWP 100125) 0x0000000800c0d85c in pthread_testcancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 1 Thread 0x517800 (runnable) 0x0000000800d5d000 in makecontext () from /lib/libc.so.6 at this instruction: 0x000000080055cfbc: mov %gs:0x10,%r11 (gdb) p $gs $1 = 0 I've been reading on the net something about the kernel not preserving the GS across syscalls (or stmh). Is this true? and if so, is there a known workaround? I'm on a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE-200706 (AMD64) machine. Thanks, -- Mihai Donțu _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
