Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:20:11 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Use %ebp rather than %ebx for thread_info pointer |
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On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > If you use EBP as an index register, i.e., "movl (%ebp), %eax", it > will be relative to the SS, not ES or DS. Is this what you want?
That's fine, both SS and DS are 32-bit flat segments everywhere in the kernel (they have different descriptors - __KERNEL_DS vs __USER_DS, but they do the same thing)
Linus
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