Re: pmap of amd64

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:54:16PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:>     (1) We can map a page containing the address of the per-cpu globaldata
:>         structure and use %fs in the trap code:
:>  
:>         movq	$SOME_FIXED_CONSTANT_ADDRESS,%fs
:
:You don't have to play such games on AMD64 -- the swapgs instruction is
:normally used by traps and system calls to load a well-defined address
:base for that. Note that gs is expected to be used for, but that is a
:minor detail.
:
:Joerg

    I don't think we can use swapgs.  The problem with swapgs is that it's
    a swap, not a load, which means it can only be used at the syscall
    interface and can't be used at the interrupt or exception interface.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>