Re: %gs:0 thread pseudoregister in oskit-mach

[Jeroen Dekkers]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:01:12PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > No, the assert happens using the DS segment. Hmm, I guess something
> > more is wrong here. It looks like the segment isn't protecting us here
> > and the segmentation fault just happens because of there is nothing
> > mapped at 0xc0000000 and it gets a page fault. If the segment would
> > protect us we should get a general protection exception, right?
> 
> Yes, I think that's what should happen.  However, I think the segment
> limits are all off by one.  That is, try accessing 0xc0000004.  If that is
> the only problem, then using VM_MAX_ADDRESS-VM_MIN_ADDRESS-1 in the
> fill_ldt_descriptor calls should fix it.

0xc0000004 gives the same problems. Note that the assertion was right
in the first place, the GS segment didn't trigger it, only the DS
segment.

Jeroen Dekkers
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