Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:53:50 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET] thread_info annotations and fixes |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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