From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752539AbXE3BK1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 21:10:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751359AbXE3BKT (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 21:10:19 -0400 Received: from stout.engsoc.carleton.ca ([134.117.69.22]:57835 "EHLO stout.engsoc.carleton.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750903AbXE3BKR (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 21:10:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 21:10:15 -0400 From: Kyle McMartin To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: wcohen@redhat.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: reduce-size-of-task_struct-on-64-bit-machines.patch removed from -mm tree Message-ID: <20070530011015.GA16354@fattire.cabal.ca> References: <200705090244.l492i4kH008542@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <20070529215501.GA15944@fattire.cabal.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070529215501.GA15944@fattire.cabal.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 05:55:01PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > Other 64-bit arch maintainers should check that they're using a 32-bit > load/store on these fields in their assembly now (we were using a > #define to do word on 32bit and doubleword on 64bit, which broke, badly, > when these changed.) > Bummer, I just audited everyone else and we're the only people who use these flags in assembly. Sigh. Oh well. Cheers, Kyle