Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:23:52 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [12/12] fix thread_info.h ignoring __HAVE_THREAD_FUNCTIONS |
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:19:12PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > There is another pending change in this department: current_thread_info(). > For all nonbroken archs which have proper thread register it would > actually be beneficial, to keep the task structure and thread info > together and access them via the thread register, but a certain arch > and include dependencies forces everyone to derive the thread info pointer > from the stack pointer.
ia64 actually has thread_info and task_info in a single allocation and uses a thread register to find that one.
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