* Keith Owens <[email protected]> wrote:
> >yeah. I'd too suggest to call it prefetch_stack(), and not make it a
> >macro & hook but something defined on all arches, with for now only ia64
> >having any real code in the inline function.
> >
> >i'm wondering, is the switch_stack at the same/similar place as
> >next->thread_info? If yes then we could simply do a
> >prefetch(next->thread_info).
>
> No, they can be up to 30K apart. See include/asm-ia64/ptrace.h.
> thread_info is at ~0xda0, depending on the config. The switch_stack
> can be as high as 0x7bd0 in the kernel stack, depending on why the
> task is sleeping.
is the switch_stack the same thing as the kernel stack? If yes then we
want to have something like:
prefetch(kernel_stack(next));
to make it more generic. By default kernel_stack(next) could be
next->thread_info (to make sure we prefetch something real). On e.g.
x86/x64, kernel_stack(next) should be something like next->thread.esp.
Ingo
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