Re: [PATCH] fix oops on resume from apm bios initiated suspend

From: Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 18:15:12 EST

Andrew Morton wrote:

Also, is there any point in doing load_LDT(&current->active_mm->context)
for a kernel thread?


Yes.
If the next thread switch is to a user space process that uses kernel_thread->active_mm as user_thread->mm, then switch_to does not load the ldt. (switch_to, in <asm-i386/mmu_context.h>)
--
Manfred

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