On 04/07/2016 06:39 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Can anybody give a *coherent* and actual *real* reason why the kernel > would ever care about anything else?
We already have a similar per-thread data structure, the robust mutex list. The CPU ID is another one. So it's conceivable we might get further such fields in the future. (AFAICS set_robust_list was designed with such extensions in mind.) Florian
