From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753264AbcFQXEl (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2016 19:04:41 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:35682 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751103AbcFQXEk (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2016 19:04:40 -0400 Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:04:31 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Kees Cook , "H. Peter Anvin" , Peter Zijlstra , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [off-list] a path toward killing thread_info Message-ID: <20160617230431.GG14480@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 03:41:49PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > PeterZ, I'm thinking of adding task_ti_flags_ptr to directly find the > ti flags word given a task_struct * so the scheduler can use it. Does > that seem reasonable to you? What are you trying to do? Merge task_struct and thread_info?