From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751434AbZI1Gds (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:33:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751149AbZI1Gdr (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:33:47 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com ([209.85.219.211]:60485 "EHLO mail-ew0-f211.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750917AbZI1Gdq (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:33:46 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=xVhTlDrX4/+t9KEcEtAZbYTyiW1U+g53yfj7XhC5+mOrognQCU4WYaUlcmVGY9vNO7 F2gnjE1RSU/hQ1assO9VBzLADdb47EInVB/ODzuslqI9fzsqWPzrZBR51rPtTsrwxerh koI2Ui2BDaTAse772INI/sTglT7aCUQgvnp5U= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:33:49 -0400 Message-ID: <940bcfd20909272333g10e298m8f6271c80462cb7c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: per-process flags on x86 From: Dulloor To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The flags field in task_struct is exhausted (for x86). Would it be acceptable to add another flag (in the same cache line) ? -dulloor