On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 03:39:09PM +0100, Christopher Covington wrote: > Hi Will, > > On 06/24/2013 10:04 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > [...] > > > What's the advantage of this approach, other than you get an extra byte's > > worth of PID? > > In my view, the real advantage is that the the PID is located where people > reading ARM Architecture Reference Manual are told they can find it.
Perhaps, but I'd usually expect a debugger or trace tools to do something with the PID, and they likely expect it to be shifted, so you can't really win. Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
