RE: [PATCH] io_thread/x86: don't reset 'cs', 'ss', 'ds' and 'es' registers for io_threads

From: David Laight
Date: Thu May 06 2021 - 05:47:54 EST


> (To avoid confusion, this is not a universal property of Linux. arm64
> and arm32 tasks on an arm64 Linux host are different and cannot
> arbitrarily switch modes.)

Although there are patches lurking to change that.
(not from me).

David

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