On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 04:10:38PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Al Viro wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:15:24AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > > >
> > > > - *ti = *orig->thread_info;
> > > > *tsk = *orig;
> > > > + setup_thread_info(tsk, ti);
> > > > tsk->thread_info = ti;
> > > > ti->task = tsk;
> > >
> > > This introduces a subtle ordering requirement, where setup_thread_info
> > > magically finds in the new task_struct the pointer to the old thread_info
> > > to setup the new thread_info.
> >
> > Nothing subtle with it, especially since this is the only place with any
> > business to call setup_thread_info().
>
> Wrong, we could have multiple versions setup_thread_info() and every one
> gets the pointer to old thread_info via the new task_struct.
How does that make what I wrote above wrong? We do have two versions, all
right. Called from one place. Each is a one-liner in my variant, more than
that in your.
> > > What is your problem with what I have in CVS? There it completes the basic
> > > task_struct setup and _after_ that it can setup the thread_info.
> >
> > Which buys you what, exactly? You end up with more things to do in
> > setup_thread_info() and it doesn't get cleaner.
>
> Wrong.
>
> +static inline void setup_thread_stack(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct *org)
> +{
> + *task_thread_info(p) = *task_thread_info(org);
> + task_thread_info(p)->task = p;
> +}
... and that does not fit "more things to do in setup_thread_info()" in
which way?
> > > Al, I would really prefer to merge this one myself, I'm only waiting for
> > > the 2.6.13 release and since this is not a regression, I don't really
> > > understand why this must be in 2.6.13.
> >
> > Fine, as long as that merge is done before your s/thread_info/stack/ patches.
> > It should be the first step before doing 200Kb worth of cosmetical stuff
> > that affects every architecture out there, not something that depends on
> > it done.
>
> Please count correctly, there is only one 100KB patch, the rest is rather
> small (50KB in 7 patches).
... no comments, except that 28K (ti6_1) + 24K (ti6_2) + 22K (ti6_3) +
12K (ti6_4) already appears to be more than 50K...
In any case, that's hardly the point - s/200/150/ if you wish and that
does not make the problem much better.
> > There's also a question of having mainline build and work on the architecture
> > in question, which obviously is not something you care about - this hairball
> > had been sitting in m68k CVS for how long? Since 2.5.60-something, with
> > zero efforts to resolve it, right? And mainline kernel didn't even build,
> > let alone work since that moment.
> >
> > FWIW, essentially the same splitup of that mess had been posted more than
> > three months ago; definitely before 2.6.12-final. Still no activity _and_
> > plans that involve doing kernel-wide renaming of struct thread_info *
> > thread_info in task_struct to void *stack as part of m68k merge.
>
> Al, while I appreciate your iniative, could you please work a little bit
> more with the other people working on this port? I did take and adapted
> your patches and posted my versions of it and until yesterday you didn't
> bother to comment publically. The "no activity" is complete bullshit.
I seem to remember some very public conversations with you on that topic,
but again, this is not the point - the real issue is with merge strategy
you proposed. And no, I do not believe that doing that merge + great
renaming in a single burst is feasible. Reorder that and yes, all parts
make sense and are doable. With essentially the same final tree.
Hell, I can even offer to do and feed the per-arch cleanups of that, getting
the final chunk down to tolerable size. After and separate from getting m68k
to work in mainline.
To clarify the situation: this is _NOT_ an attempt to prevent ->thread_info
cleanups from getting into the tree. I actually think that they do make
sense; moreover, they do make sense on their own and mixing them with m68k
merge only causes extra problems for both.
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