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On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 16:10 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> 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.

How do you get to "current" in that case ? A normal per-cpu ?

Cheers,
Ben.