Re: kernel: ldt allocation failed

From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 09:06:45 EST

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On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:19:07PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

> glibc 2.3 seems to plan to use segment register based thread local data for
> even non threaded programs, so it would be a good idea to optimize LDT
> allocation a bit (= not allocate 64K of vmalloc space every time
> sys_modify_ldt is called - there is only 8MB of it)

Manfred Spraul had a patch that did this.

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