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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] unify init_task
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:26:38 +0100
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To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

On Thursday 11 December 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Wondering, would it harm a lot having the aligned(THREAD_SIZE) everywhere?

No real harm, but some architectures don't require alignment of thread_info,
and they might waste a few kb because of the forced alignment.

The easier solution should be to force the alignment in
arch/{sparc,m68k}/vmlinux.lds.S, like the other architectures have it.

m68k-sun3 currently aligns thread_info to PAGE_SIZE, m68k aligns it
to 8192. AFAICT, you can simply replace both with THREAD_SIZE.

	Arnd <><