> > allocation a bit (= not allocate 64K of vmalloc space every time
> > sys_modify_ldt is called - there is only 8MB of it)
>
> What do they use on arches without LDT or equivalent?
Generally on such platforms you have enough registers to use a register
for your thread specific storage. In fact even the kernel does that - you'll
find 'current' on some platforms is a global register variable
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