Hi,
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2007 02:10:34 +0200 (CEST) Roman Zippel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > This finally renames the thread_info field in task structure to stack,
> > so that the assumptions about this field are gone and archs have more
> > freedom about placing the thread_info structure.
>
> It's been a year or so and I've forgotten what the actual point to these
> changes is. Can we be reminded please?
Nonbroken archs which have a proper thread pointer can do the access to
both current thread and task structure via a single pointer.
It'll allow for a few more cleanups of the fork code, from which e.g. ia64
could benefit.
bye, Roman
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