From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:46:31 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Header dependencies Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:48:35 +0000, Matthew Wilcox said: Matthew> I think the basic problem is that thread_info and Matthew> task_struct are the wrong way round on the stack. If we Matthew> put thread_info first then we don't need IA64_TASK_SIZE in Matthew> current_thread_info's definition. What would people think Matthew> to this rearrangement? I guess some asm code might need to Matthew> be changed, and I'm still scared of ia64 assembler ;-) I think I tried that back when the thread_info ugliness was introduced. Making it work would require more changes to the platform independent portions of the kernel (which may well be the right thing to do). But my memory may be wrong---if you can make it work, I'd be OK with the change. --david