On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Alexander van Heukelum <heuke...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > The macro THREAD_INFO(reg,offset) is used in assembly to compute the > offset between the user ptregs and the thread_info struct. Change > the macro and all its uses so that offset is given as the current > top of stack in the pt_regs frame. The generated code is identical.
What is the purpose of doing this? I don't mean to say that it's pointless, but it is also not obvious why it's better than the code before patch. -- 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/
