On 07/18/2015 01:33 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> I think the API should be "set gsbase to x + y*(cpu number)".  On
> x86_64, userspace just allocates a big swath of virtual space and
> populates it as needed.

This will break WINE and similar applications which use %gs today.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security
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