Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2018 15:41:01 +1000 | From | Nicholas Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v3 5/7] powerpc: 'current_set' is now a table of task_struct pointers |
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 12:30:27 +0000 (UTC) Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> wrote:
> The table of pointers 'current_set' has been used for retrieving > the stack and current. They used to be thread_info pointers as > they were pointing to the stack and current was taken from the > 'task' field of the thread_info. > > Now, the pointers of 'current_set' table are now both pointers > to task_struct and pointers to thread_info. > > As they are used to get current, and the stack pointer is > retrieved from current's stack field, this patch changes > their type to task_struct, and renames secondary_ti to > secondary_current.
I'm not sure if current_set is actually needed is it? Because 64-bit already initializes paca->ksave / PACAKSAVE. That might be a cleanup to do after your series.
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
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