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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	davidm@hpl.hp.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move task_struct allocation to arch
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:37:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23458.1013773072@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>  of "Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:25:33 +0100." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202151219590.564-100000@serv>


> That wouldn't be a problem, if ia32 added the needed infrastructure to
> calculate the structure offsets. It's not really that difficult, look at
> the m68k implementation, which even gets dependencies right. AFAIK Keith
> also added the needed infra structure to his new build system.

But the offsets aren't fixed. The task structure does not lie adjacent to the
thread_info structure.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-15 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-14 15:26 [PATCH] move task_struct allocation to arch David Howells
2002-02-14 16:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-14 16:32   ` David Howells
2002-02-14 16:46     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-14 17:03       ` David Howells
2002-02-14 20:48         ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-14 23:53         ` Richard Henderson
2002-02-15  9:56         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-15 10:01           ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-15 11:25           ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-15 11:37             ` David Howells [this message]
2002-02-15 12:20               ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-15 12:56                 ` David Howells
2002-02-15 13:49                   ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-15 13:51                     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-15 14:22                       ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-15 14:07                     ` David Howells
2002-02-15 14:28                       ` Roman Zippel
2002-02-15 21:56                       ` Richard Henderson
2002-02-15 21:52                   ` Richard Henderson

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