Hi, On Wed, 2 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2007 02:10:34 +0200 (CEST) Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > This finally renames the thread_info field in task structure to stack, > > so that the assumptions about this field are gone and archs have more > > freedom about placing the thread_info structure. > > It's been a year or so and I've forgotten what the actual point to these > changes is. Can we be reminded please? Nonbroken archs which have a proper thread pointer can do the access to both current thread and task structure via a single pointer. It'll allow for a few more cleanups of the fork code, from which e.g. ia64 could benefit. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/