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the attached (tested) patch fixes a bad TLS initialization bug found by
Andi Kleen. x86/SMP only worked due to luck.

        Ingo

--- linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c.orig    Fri Aug 30 10:26:55 2002

        /*
         * Set up the per-thread TLS descriptor cache:
         */
-       memcpy(thread->tls_array, cpu_gdt_table[cpu], GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MAX * 8);
+       memcpy(thread->tls_array, cpu_gdt_table[cpu], GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES * 8);

        __asm__ __volatile__("lgdt %0": "=m" (cpu_gdt_descr[cpu]));
        __asm__ __volatile__("lidt %0": "=m" (idt_descr));

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