* Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | hm, looks good to me but i'm wondering why this was a holdout for
> | such a long time :-) Did you manage to test actual LDT functionality
> | with this patch applied?
>
> No, I didn't. The only test I did was to run the kernel with this
> patch applied.
>
> I'll manage to test it then. Do you have a test-case or has any
> suggestion?
i think try any pthread program with:
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.0
should trigger the LDT code. Try stracing the code and modify_ldt calls
should show up.
> Oh, btw, I forgot to 'quilt add arch/i386/mm/fault.c' [...]
heh. After a dozen of such incidents i scripted my editor command to
automatically do the quilt add :)
Ingo
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