Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] task_struct colouring ... | Date | 30 Nov 2001 15:37:48 -0800 |
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Followup to: <E169wL1-00052x-00@the-village.bc.nu> By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > Looking at both the Manfred and Fujitsu patches I propose this new version > > for task struct colouring. > > The patch from Manfred is too architecture dependent ( cr2 ) and storing > > extra stuff in CPU registers is not IMHO a good idea. > > Well the whole "current" handling is entirely architecture dependant anyway. > On most saner platforms current is a global register variable (the wonders > of gcc) and the whole problem simply isnt there >
Using %cr2 was pretty broken, but I liked the patch using %tr.
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