Re: [uml-devel] modify_ldt

[Jeff D. <jd...@ka...>]

bu...@gn... said:
> You basically assign a (base,length) pair to a segment register, and
> whenever you use that segment register for accessing data, the base
> pointer is added to all your memory references, and bounds checking
> against the segment length is done.

What happens when there's a bounds check violation?

If modify_ldt is used to put a tiny length on the code or data segment, will 
that cause UML to crap out?

> Heh. And almost before I have it done you switch :-) 

Sorry, I had to :-)  It was one of the unforeseen side-effects of the page 
table fixes.

				Jeff