From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261469AbVFBXGs (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 19:06:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261496AbVFBXGq (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 19:06:46 -0400 Received: from fmr21.intel.com ([143.183.121.13]:31872 "EHLO scsfmr001.sc.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261548AbVFBXGc (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 19:06:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 16:06:04 -0700 From: "Siddha, Suresh B" To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" , discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, nanhai.zou@intel.com, rohit.seth@intel.com, rajesh.shah@intel.com Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [Patch] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes Message-ID: <20050602160603.C14384@unix-os.sc.intel.com> References: <20050602133256.A14384@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <20050602135013.4cba3ae2.akpm@osdl.org> <20050602151912.B14384@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <20050602154823.15141bfc.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20050602154823.15141bfc.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 03:48:23PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 03:48:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Siddha, Suresh B" wrote: > > ia64, ppc64 and s390 seems be getting this info from thread_info or > > thread_struct in the task struct. > > I know. I'm claiming that this is conceptually wrong. I def see your point. But this is too late for 2.6.12. We want to get this fixed in 2.6.12. We can do the cleanup at a more convenient time. thanks, suresh