On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote: > > * Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Allocate a separate structure for the vm86 fields. > > Why is this allocated dynamically? This structure is not very large, and a > hole in > thread_struct isn't that big of an issue - compared to additional fragility > introduced by the (mostly untested by normal apps) dynamic allocation here ... > > I don't mind the introduction of the sub-structure in itself, but please > embedd it > in thread_struct. >
This ends up being several hundred bytes, I think, due to including an entire struct pt_regs. Do we really want to enlarge thread_struct that much for something that's essentially never used? --Andy -- 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/
