Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:45:45 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: task_struct offsets broken in 2.1.77 |
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On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Martin Mares wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > The changes in the task_struct introduced in 2.1.77 caused the offsets > > to task_struct fields used in arch/i386/kernel/entry.S to be shifted one > > longword, the whole thing worked only by some means of magic. The following > > patch corrects these offsets, but wouldn't it be good to switch to > > machine-generated offsets as Sparc people already do? > > > > Have a nice fortnight > > Perhaps this explains why 2.1.77 panics on my Alpha? 2.1.76 works fine.
Yes. I have this fixed in my tree, although not the same way as Martin (I just moved the new "struct task_struct" entry down to where it belongs), which automatically fixes all architectures.
Linus
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