Re: linear vs. logical addresses? how does cpu interpret kernel addrs?

[Jamie Lokier]

Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Note also that there are two seldom- used segment registers, FS and GS.

GS is used for thread-local storage in userspace now, since NPTL
became the standard Linux threading library.

-- Jamie
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