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From: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: Unneeded assignment to tsk in recent x86 change
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:56:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49777DF5.1080107@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18807.7643.368198.582428@harpo.it.uu.se>

Mikael Pettersson wrote:

>  > Impact: Cleanup.
>  > 
>  > Remove unneeded assignment to tsk in recent x86 change [1].
>  
>
>  > @@ -795,13 +794,12 @@ asmlinkage
>  >  void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
>  >  {
>  >  	unsigned long address;
>  > -	struct task_struct *tsk;
>  > +	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
>  >  	struct mm_struct *mm;
>  >  	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
>  >  	int write;
>  >  	int fault;
>  >  
>  > -	tsk = current;
>  >  	mm = tsk->mm;
>  >  	prefetchw(&mm->mmap_sem);
>
> but this is neither a fix nor IMO a cleanup (it's inconsistent with
> the other variables in that function)
>   

Hm, I'm not sure I see the inconsistency here. Care to explain this 
inconsistency in a couple of words?

Thanks,
Uros.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-21 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-21 12:32 [patch] x86: Unneeded assignment to tsk in recent x86 change Uros Bizjak
2009-01-21 13:06 ` Mikael Pettersson
2009-01-21 19:56   ` Uros Bizjak [this message]
2009-01-21 21:13     ` Mikael Pettersson

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