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authorattilio <attilio@FreeBSD.org>2007-07-07 16:59:01 +0000
committerattilio <attilio@FreeBSD.org>2007-07-07 16:59:01 +0000
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Actual code shows several problems in ia32 LDT handling:
- When a LDT entry changes, the old one is freed while it is still referenced by gdt and ldtr. This can lead to disruptive behaviours in particular on SMP machines. - When a LDT entry changes, it is assumed that the only one entity sharing the same LDT are threads in the same proc. It doesn't take in account edge cases where two processes share the same VM (rfork'ed ones, for example). This patch addresses these two problems and addictionally it fixes the usage of refcount switching back it to the old manually-grown refcount (since in this case would be faster). Diagnosed by: tegge Tested by: pho (a former version) Reviewed by: kib Approved by: jeff (mentor) Approved by: re
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