Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:04:09 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] 2.5.20 x86 iobitmap cleanup |
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > > Below is a patch against base 2.5.20 which makes the io port > bitmap in thread_struct a pointer to a bitmap that is only > allocated when the process calls ioperm. This results in 132 > bytes being removed from struct task_struct.
Why do you introduce a arch_dispose_thread_struct(), instead of just making the x86 exit_thread() do it?
Linus
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