A wired thread (vm_wire) has special vm rules inside the kernel. It's got
nothing to do with what you might expect (tying a cthread to a kernel
thread).
Thomas
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Thomas Thomas wrote:
> So, mach-defpager "wires" all of its threads. What exactly does that mean?
> I
So, mach-defpager "wires" all of its threads. What exactly does that mean?
I think the headers are kind-of sketchy. They do say that in GNU all threads
are wired, will this apply to pthread threads, too?
Nextly, it uses cthread_data to store a pointer to a thread-specific buffer
that it uses in pa