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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] show_task() and thread_saved_pc() fix for x86
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:50:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001113175017.B1820@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10011111844080.3611-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011112207230.24250-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011112207230.24250-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>

On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 10:18:46PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Alternative variant: just let schedule() store its return address
> in the task_struct.

Please please.  I can't reliably unwind the stack on Alpha.

> OTOH, the value is used only by Alt-SysRq-T, so... Hell knows.

No, it's also used by 'ps -l'.  See wchan.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-11-14  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-10 21:26 [PATCH] show_task() and thread_saved_pc() fix for x86 Alexander Viro
2000-11-11 13:06 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-11-12 10:04   ` Richard Henderson
2000-11-12  2:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-11-12  3:18   ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-12  3:23     ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-14  1:50     ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2000-11-14  9:19       ` Jean Wolter
2000-11-15  9:38         ` Ralf Baechle

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