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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2016-10-19 19:28:11 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-10-20 13:27:47 +0200
commitc8061485a0d7569a865a3cc3c63347b0f42b3765 (patch)
treef3c6e686eb2960f0b105c7ec28941fd0d67aff04 /include/linux/thread_info.h
parentx86/signal: Remove bogus user_64bit_mode() check from sigaction_compat_abi() (diff)
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sched/core, x86: Make struct thread_info arch specific again
The following commit: c65eacbe290b ("sched/core: Allow putting thread_info into task_struct") ... made 'struct thread_info' a generic struct with only a single ::flags member, if CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK_STRUCT=y is selected. This change however seems to be quite x86 centric, since at least the generic preemption code (asm-generic/preempt.h) assumes that struct thread_info also has a preempt_count member, which apparently was not true for x86. We could add a bit more #ifdefs to solve this problem too, but it seems to be much simpler to make struct thread_info arch specific again. This also makes the conversion to THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK_STRUCT a bit easier for architectures that have a couple of arch specific stuff in their thread_info definition. The arch specific stuff _could_ be moved to thread_struct. However keeping them in thread_info makes it easier: accessing thread_info members is simple, since it is at the beginning of the task_struct, while the thread_struct is at the end. At least on s390 the offsets needed to access members of the thread_struct (with task_struct as base) are too large for various asm instructions. This is not a problem when keeping these members within thread_info. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: keescook@chromium.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476901693-8492-2-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/thread_info.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/thread_info.h11
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h
index 45f004e9cc59..2873baf5372a 100644
--- a/include/linux/thread_info.h
+++ b/include/linux/thread_info.h
@@ -14,17 +14,6 @@ struct timespec;
struct compat_timespec;
#ifdef CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
-struct thread_info {
- unsigned long flags; /* low level flags */
-};
-
-#define INIT_THREAD_INFO(tsk) \
-{ \
- .flags = 0, \
-}
-#endif
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
#define current_thread_info() ((struct thread_info *)current)
#endif