[Devel] [PATCH VZ9] hide unused field in thread_info

2024-06-16 Thread Alexey Kuznetsov
RHEL added this unused field by an unknown reason, apparently brainlessy porting some patch from mainstream. It looks just as waste of memory, but it is worse, as tools like drgn interpret its presence as indicator that kernel works according to rules of that mainstream kernel where that patch was

Re: [Devel] [PATCH VZ9] hide unused field in thread_info

2024-06-16 Thread Vasily Averin
Alexey, looks like you forgot to attach the patch. Thank you, Vasily Averin On 6/12/24 21:32, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: > RHEL added this unused field by an unknown reason, apparently > brainlessy backporting some patch from mainstream. > > It looks just as harmless waste of memory, but it

[Devel] [PATCH VZ9] hide unused field in thread_info

2024-06-13 Thread Alexey Kuznetsov
RHEL added this unused field by an unknown reason, apparently brainlessy backporting some patch from mainstream. It looks just as harmless waste of memory, but it is worse, as tools like drgn interpret its presence as indicator that kernel works according to rules of that mainstream kernel that pa