Reg:current a pointer to task_struct

From: SATHISH.J (sathish.j@tatainfotech.com)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 03:35:35 EST

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Hi,

Please help me with the following:

I tried to go through get_current function which is in assembly.

static inline struct task_struct * get_current(void) {
        struct task_struct *current;
        __asm__("andl %%esp,%0; ":"=r" (current) : "0" (~8191UL));
        return current;
}

Please tell me what is done here. Does current refer to process onproc.

Thanks in advance,
Regards,
sathish

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