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| From | "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [off-list] a path toward killing thread_info |
| Date | 2016-06-18 01:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <rLbdn-4wD-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <rLaKm-47q-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <rLb3H-4td-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On June 17, 2016 4:04:31 PM PDT, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote: >On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 03:41:49PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> PeterZ, I'm thinking of adding task_ti_flags_ptr to directly find the >> ti flags word given a task_struct * so the scheduler can use it. >Does >> that seem reasonable to you? > >What are you trying to do? Merge task_struct and thread_info? Yes. I did a half-finished patchset to do this once, in that I defined accessor functions which used container_of instead of pointers on architectures where this merge was enabled. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse brevity and formatting.
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[off-list] a path toward killing thread_info Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-18 00:50 +0200
Re: [off-list] a path toward killing thread_info Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-06-18 01:10 +0200
Re: [off-list] a path toward killing thread_info "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-06-18 01:20 +0200
Re: [off-list] a path toward killing thread_info Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> - 2016-06-18 01:30 +0200
Re: [off-list] a path toward killing thread_info "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-06-18 02:10 +0200
Re: [off-list] a path toward killing thread_info Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-18 01:30 +0200
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