On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> 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...

No profanity on this list (and Poul, far-pointers were very definitely
profane!)  Go wash out your mouth!


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