Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:34:26 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Calling current() from interrupt context |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > You can also still do the stack pointer plaything by just using > indirection: and when you context switch you switch the pointer around at > the base of the per-cpu interrupt stack.
Indirection, à la "current = *(stack & ~8191)" might not be a bad idea in general. As Ralf Baechle noted, having all the task structs at the same offset isn't good for the cache.
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