* Stas Sergeev <[email protected]> wrote:
> 17.02.2016 10:21, Ingo Molnar пишет:
> >
> > * Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> + * If the kernel ever adds explicit fs, gs, fsbase, and gsbase
> >> + * save/restore, it will most likely need to be opt-in and use
> >> + * different context slots.
> >
> > Btw., that's not necessarily true: it could also be made opt-out, and a
> > modify_ldt() or any other cleanly identifiable legacy usage/signature that
> > is
> > associated with DOSEMU might trigger the opt-out automatically as well.
> But there are the new versions of dosemu that still use
> "modify_ldt() or any other cleanly identifiable legacy usage/signature"
> and yet wants a new functionality.
> Please don't go for such an unreliable heuristic.
Only if implemented dumbly.
Implemented intelligently there would be 3 runtime states: enabled, disabled,
automatic. New DOSEMU would explicitly enable it, which would override any
automatic defaults.
But note that I was only pointing out that the comment is needlessly
restrictive.
Anyway, I have applied Andy's patches.
Thanks,
Ingo
