> But the ones that do the same thing for fs/es/ds are *not*. Those three > registers are kernel mode registers (ds/es are the regular kernel data > segment, fs is the per-cpu data segment), and restored on return to user > space from the stack.
Um, really? This is x86-64 code. AIUI those values don't have any effect at all in 64-bit mode (as the kernel is). I haven't found any code in entry_64.S or ia32entry.S that touches them. __switch_to uses direct access to the segment registers just as I've done. Thanks, Roland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
