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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [off-list] a path toward killing thread_info
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 16:10:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CCEB83C-FBCF-4095-8770-892387438060@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160617230431.GG14480@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

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.
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-17 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-17 22:41 Andy Lutomirski
2016-06-17 23:04 ` Al Viro
2016-06-17 23:10   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2016-06-17 23:23     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-06-18  0:02       ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-06-17 23:24   ` Andy Lutomirski

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