the kernel on amd64. Fill and read segment registers for mcontext and
signals. Handle traps caused by restoration of the
invalidated selectors.
Implement user-mode creation and manipulation of the process-specific
LDT descriptors for amd64, see sysarch(2).
Implement support for TSS i/o port access permission bitmap for amd64.
Context-switch LDT and TSS. Do not save and restore segment registers on
the context switch, that is handled by kernel enter/leave trampolines
now. Remove segment restore code from the signal trampolines for
freebsd/amd64, freebsd/ia32 and linux/i386 for the same reason.
Implement amd64-specific compat shims for sysarch.
Linuxolator (temporary ?) switched to use gsbase for thread_area pointer.
TODO:
Currently, gdb is not adapted to show segment registers from struct reg.
Also, no machine-depended ptrace command is added to set segment
registers for debugged process.
In collaboration with: pho
Discussed with: peter
Reviewed by: jhb
Linuxolator tested by: dchagin
This code is heavily inspired by Takanori Watanabe's experimental SMP patch
for i386 and large portion was shamelessly cut and pasted from Peter Wemm's
AP boot code.
