Re: [PATCH] show_task() and thread_saved_pc() fix for x86

From: Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Date: Mon Nov 13 2000 - 20:50:17 EST

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On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 10:18:46PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Alternative variant: just let schedule() store its return address
> in the task_struct.

Please please. I can't reliably unwind the stack on Alpha.

> OTOH, the value is used only by Alt-SysRq-T, so... Hell knows.

No, it's also used by 'ps -l'. See wchan.

r~
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