Re: i386_set_ldt warnings

In the last episode (Oct 22), Steve Kargl said:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:09:43PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, C. Kukulies wrote:
> > > Some (kde) applications now have a warning appear in xconsole:
> > > 
> > > Warning: pid 595 used static ldt allocation.
> > > See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info
> > 
> > Let me guess.  You are using Nividia-supplied drivers/libraries?
> 
> I see similar messages on the console and I do not have a nvidia
> card.  By the time I find the message the process has terminated, so
> I have no way of translating the PID into an actual executable name.

That's cause whoever coded the warning forgot to print the executable
name in the error message.  Try this patch:

Index: sys_machdep.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/i386/sys_machdep.c,v
retrieving revision 1.91
diff -u -r1.91 sys_machdep.c
--- sys_machdep.c	7 Sep 2003 05:23:28 -0000	1.91
+++ sys_machdep.c	22 Oct 2003 16:52:49 -0000
_at__at_ -464,8 +464,8 _at__at_
 	if (!(uap->start == LDT_AUTO_ALLOC && uap->num == 1)) {
 		/* complain a for a while if using old methods */
 		if (ldt_warnings++ < NUM_LDT_WARNINGS) {
-			printf("Warning: pid %d used static ldt allocation.\n",
-			    td->td_proc->p_pid);
+			printf("Warning: pid %d (%s) used static ldt allocation.\n",
+			    td->td_proc->p_pid, td->td_proc->p_comm);
 			printf("See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info\n");
 		}
 		/* verify range of descriptors to modify */


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