On 06/24/2013 10:53 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > 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.
But reading and implementing the architecture *is* winning! LOL. I'll file a ticket with the architecture folks and see what they think. Christopher -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by the Linux Foundation. -- 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/
