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SubjectRe: [PATCHSET] thread_info annotations and fixes
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:41:45PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> As long as this is just wrappering the existing pointers, then that's
> fine, but just in case it matters, I should point out that, at least for
> parisc, the wrappering is incomplete: we have references to the
> thread_info pointer in the task struct via our assembly glue as well (in
> just two places: the smp secondary CPU start and the _switch_to
> implementation).

You and a _lot_ of other architectures. That's fine - nobody suggests
centrally forced changes of data structure layouts, etc. These decisions
belong to architecture and assembler code is obviously supposed to be
aware of WTF it is doing; such annotations belong on C side of things.
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